Claim · #6495432
Ganoderma australe · pathogen pressure · Casuarina equisetifolia
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“strands of the fungus Ganoderma australe among decaying wood tissue”
- Authors
- University of Guam, College of Natural and Applied Sciences
- Year
- 2022
- Publication
- University of Guam Cooperative Extension & Outreach / Agricultural Experiment Station
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Ganoderma australe is a well-documented basidiomycete heart-rot fungus on Casuarina; Guam ironwood decline is established literature.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Ganoderma australe causes white-rot/heart-rot in tropical hardwoods including Casuarina; documented in ironwood tree decline complex on Guam.”
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