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Claim · #6495245

Berberis spp. · pathogen pressure · Triticum aestivum

pathogen pressure · effect: harmful

pathogenOf GloBI relation

Verbatim source quote

“Berberis spp. as alternate hosts in generating new races of Puccinia graminis”
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
427

AI critic verdicts

  • agroecologist · plausible

    “Berberis as alternate host for Puccinia graminis is foundational cereal-rust ecology; sexual recombination on barberry generates new races, well established.”

  • plant-pathologist · plausible

    “Berberis spp. confirmed as alternate (aecial) host for P. graminis sexual stage where new races arise; P. striiformis alternate-host role on Berberis is also documented (Jin et al. 2010).”

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