Claim · #6494576
geminiviruses · pathogen pressure · Solanum lycopersicum
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“geminiviruses of tomato, plum pox, hoja blanca of rice, sugar beet yellows, and citrus tristeza”
- Authors
- Unknown
- Year
- Unknown
- Publication
- Unknown Plant Pathology Textbook
- Page
- 752
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“TYLCV (geminivirus, Geminiviridae) is a well-documented, highly destructive pathogen of Solanum lycopersicum globally; severity 'very high' and 'whole plant' damage align with literature.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“TYLCV is a well-documented geminivirus (Begomovirus) causing severe losses in tomato; eponymous-pathogen direction (virus infects tomato) is correct and unambiguous.”
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