Claim · #6494621
cucumber mosaic virus · pathogen pressure · Cucumis sativus
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“one-third to one-half of the plants may be destroyed by the disease”
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- Publication
- Unknown Plant Pathology Textbook
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- 787
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“CMV is a well-documented cucurbit pathogen causing mottling, distortion, dwarfing, and bitter fruit on Cucumis sativus; severe yield losses are consistent with the literature.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“CMV (Cucumovirus) is a well-documented, high-severity pathogen of Cucumis sativus; mosaic, distortion, dwarfing, and bitter fruit are canonical symptoms, and the yield-loss figures are consistent with literature.”
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