Claim · #6495314
East African cassava mosaic virus · pathogen pressure · Manihot esculenta
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Cassava mosaic virus (CMV) causes over $1 billion in losses”
- 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
“Cassava mosaic virus is a well-documented catastrophic constraint in East Africa; loss magnitude (~$1B, ~13M tons) is consistent with published estimates.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“EACMV-UG2 is a real begomovirus causing severe mosaic in cassava; affects leaves and indirectly storage roots via reduced photosynthesis. Whitefly-vectored, eponymous-pathogen check passes.”
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