AgroEco

Claim · #6494648

Cacao swollen shoot virus · pathogen pressure · Theobroma cacao

pathogen pressure · effect: harmful

pathogenOf GloBI relation

Verbatim source quote

“affects cacao and cola and causes severe losses”
Authors
Unknown
Year
Unknown
Publication
Unknown Plant Pathology Textbook
Page
803

AI critic verdicts

  • agroecologist · plausible

    “CSSV is a well-documented badnavirus causing swollen shoot disease in Theobroma cacao across West Africa (especially Ghana), with classic symptoms matching the extracted fields.”

  • plant-pathologist · plausible

    “CSSV (Badnavirus) is well-documented causing swollen shoot disease in Theobroma cacao and Cola in West Africa, particularly Ghana, with described symptoms matching the claim.”

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