Claim · #6494652
Beet curly top virus · pathogen pressure · Spinacia oleracea
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“most destructive on sugar beet, bean, tomato, melons, and spinach”
- Authors
- Unknown
- Year
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- Publication
- Unknown Plant Pathology Textbook
- Page
- 809
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Source quote directly lists bean among BCTV's most destructive hosts; Phaseolus vulgaris is a well-documented BCTV host in western U.S. agroecology literature.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“BCTV (Circulifer tenellus-vectored) is well-documented as highly destructive on Phaseolus vulgaris; source quote directly supports bean as a key host.”
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