Claim · #6495341
Phytophthora infestans · pathogen pressure · Solanum tuberosum
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“4 of which (late blight, brown rot, early blight and cyst nematode)”
- Authors
- Savary S., Willocquet L., Pethybridge S. J., Esker P., McRoberts N., Nelson A.
- Year
- 2019
- Publication
- Nature Ecology & Evolution
- Page
- 5
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Phytophthora infestans late blight on potato is the most historically significant potato pathogen (Irish famine); top-pathogen designation globally is well-supported.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Phytophthora infestans correctly classified as oomycete; leaves and tubers affected_part is accurate; late blight is canonically the dominant potato pathogen globally.”
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