Claim · #6494653
African cassava mosaic virus · pathogen pressure · Manihot esculenta
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“affecting 80 to 100% of all cassava plants and causing yield losses of 20 to 90%”
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- Unknown Plant Pathology Textbook
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AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“ACMV causing 80-100% incidence and 20-90% yield loss in sub-Saharan cassava is well-documented; source quote directly supports the extracted claim's core statistics.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“ACMV is a well-documented begomovirus causing severe cassava mosaic disease in sub-Saharan Africa; quoted incidence and yield-loss figures are consistent with published literature.”
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