Claim · #6494661
Potato spindle tuber viroid · pathogen pressure · Solanum tuberosum
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Yields are reduced by 25% or more”
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- Unknown Plant Pathology Textbook
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- 820
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“PSTVd is a well-documented viroid pathogen of Solanum tuberosum; spindle/stunt symptoms and ≥25% yield loss are consistent with established plant pathology literature.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“PSTVd is the type species of Pospiviroidae, a well-documented pathogen of Solanum tuberosum causing spindle tuber symptoms and yield losses ≥25%; no eponymous conflation issue.”
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