Claim · #6494700
Phytomonas serpens · pathogen pressure · Solanum lycopersicum
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Only fruit damaged by the insects become infected”
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- Unknown Plant Pathology Textbook
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AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Phytomonas serpens is a documented phloem-colonizing trypanosomatid of tomato, and insect-wound-dependent entry is biologically consistent with known vector-mediated trypanosomatid transmission in Solanaceae.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Phytomonas serpens is a documented phloem-inhabiting trypanosomatid pathogen of tomato, transmitted via insect wound sites, consistent with the mechanism and geographic range described.”
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