Claim · #6495308
Phytophthora infestans · pathogen pressure · Solanum tuberosum
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Phytophthora infestans destroyed the potato crop”
- Authors
- Ristaino J.B., Anderson P.K., Bebber D.P., Brauman K.A., Cunniffe N.J., Fedoroff N.V., Finegold C., Garrett K.A., Gilligan C.A., Jones C.M., Martin M.D., MacDonald G.K., Neenan P., Records A., Schmale D.G., Tateosian L., Wei Q.
- Year
- 2021
- Publication
- PNAS
- Page
- 2
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Phytophthora infestans causing 1845 Irish potato famine is canonical plant-pathology history; oomycete classification correct, severity catastrophic well-supported.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Phytophthora infestans is correctly classified as oomycete (not fungus); causal role in 1845 Irish potato blight is canonical and uncontested.”
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