Claim · #6495318
Magnaporthe oryzae · pathogen pressure · Triticum aestivum
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“recent introductions of wheat blast into Bangladesh in infected seed”
- 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
- 3
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Wheat blast in Bangladesh (2016) via South American M. oryzae lineage is well-documented; seed-borne introduction matches published phylogenomic evidence.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Magnaporthe oryzae Triticum lineage causing wheat blast in Bangladesh is correctly identified; spike/grain damage matches symptomology. South American origin confirmed by Islam et al. 2016.”
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