Claim · #6494606
Lettuce infectious yellows virus · pathogen pressure · Lactuca sativa
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“losses usually exceeding 20 to 30% and often approaching 100%”
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- Unknown
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- Publication
- Unknown Plant Pathology Textbook
- Page
- 778
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“LIYV is a well-documented crinivirus of lettuce in SW US/Mexico; the source quote directly supports the 20–100% loss range stated in the extracted claim.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“LIYV (crinivirus, whitefly-vectored) is a well-documented lettuce pathogen in southwestern US/Mexico; the source quote directly supports the 20–100% loss range stated.”
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