Tomato mottle virus · pathogen pressure · Solanum lycopersicum

AI critic verdicts

• agroecologist · plausible

  “TMoV is a begomovirus documented as a major pathogen of Florida winter tomatoes in the early 1990s; the $125M loss figure and high field infection rates are consistent with known outbreak records.”

• plant-pathologist · plausible

  “Tomato mottle virus (TMoV), a begomovirus transmitted by Bemisia tabaci, caused documented severe losses in Florida tomatoes in the early 1990s; the eponymous host (tomato) is correctly the subject, not the pathogen.”

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