European stone fruit yellows phytoplasma · pathogen pressure · Prunus salicina

AI critic verdicts

• agroecologist · plausible

  “European stone fruit yellows phytoplasma is well-documented as the causal agent of plum leptonecrosis on Prunus species including Japanese plum in Europe; source quote corroborates the causal-agent framing.”

• plant-pathologist · plausible

  “European stone fruit yellows phytoplasma (ESFY, 'Ca. Phytoplasma prunorum') is well-established as the causal agent of plum leptonecrosis on Prunus salicina in Europe; source quote corroborates the disease name.”

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