Claim · #6494618
Tomato ring spot virus · pathogen pressure · Malus domestica
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“apple graft union necrosis and decline... within 3 to 5 years”
- Authors
- Unknown
- Year
- Unknown
- Publication
- Unknown Plant Pathology Textbook
- Page
- 786
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“TomRSV causing apple union necrosis and decline on hypersensitive scion/tolerant rootstock combinations is a well-documented incompatibility syndrome in US apple production, consistent with source quote.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“TomRSV causing apple union necrosis/decline syndrome in hypersensitive scion/tolerant rootstock combinations is well-documented in US plant pathology literature, and the 3–5 year timeline is consistent with known disease progression.”
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