Claim · #6495229
Berberis vulgaris · pest pressure · Triticum aestivum
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“basidiospores can infect alternative hosts, such as Berberis vulgaris”
- Authors
- Dean R., van Kan J.A.L., Pretorius Z.A., Hammond-Kosack K.E., Di Pietro A., Spanu P.D., Rudd J.J., Dickman M., Kahmann R., Ellis J., Foster G.D.
- Year
- 2012
- Publication
- Molecular Plant Pathology
- Page
- 417
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Berberis vulgaris is the canonical alternate (aecial) host for Puccinia graminis enabling sexual recombination — textbook plant-pathology fact; mechanism field accurately states the rust-cycle role.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Heteroecious life cycle of P. graminis f. sp. tritici on barberry is canonical; sexual recombination on Berberis generates new virulence races (e.g., Ug99 lineage concerns), supporting the high-confidence claim.”
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