Claim · #6494608
Lettuce infectious yellows virus · pathogen pressure · Cucurbita pepo
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“cantaloupe, melon, squash”
- Authors
- Unknown
- Year
- Unknown
- Publication
- Unknown Plant Pathology Textbook
- Page
- 778
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“LIYV (Crinivirus, Closteroviridae) is documented to infect Cucurbitaceae including squash; source quote listing 'cantaloupe, melon, squash' as hosts directly supports the structured fields.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Lettuce infectious yellows virus (LIYV, an Ophiovirus/Crinivirus) is documented infecting cucurbits including squash; eponymous host 'lettuce' does not indicate subject/object swap here.”
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