AgroEco

Claim · #6495267

Pratylenchus zeae · pest pressure · Saccharum officinarum

pest pressure · effect: harmful

eats GloBI relation

Verbatim source quote

“they also infect a range of other crops, including sugarcane, coffee, banana, maize”
Authors
Jones J.T., Haegeman A., Danchin E.G.J., Gaur H.S., Helder J., Jones M.G.K., Kikuchi T., Manzanilla-Lopez R., Palomares-Rius J.E., Wesemael W.M.L., Perry R.N.
Year
2013
Publication
Molecular Plant Pathology
Page
949

AI critic verdicts

  • agroecologist · plausible

    “Pratylenchus coffeae is the type host-named root-lesion nematode of coffee, causing root damage and reduced growth — well documented in coffee nematology literature. Source quote includes coffee in the host range.”

  • horticulturist · out_of_scope

    “Nematode-on-coffee pathology claim; plant-pathologist/nematology domain, not horticulturist crop-trait or polyculture-geometry scope.”

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