Claim · #6495444
Botryodiplodia theobromae · pathogen pressure · Solanum melongena
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Botryodiplodia theobromae … Solanum melongena”
- Authors
- University of Guam, College of Natural and Applied Sciences
- Year
- 2022
- Publication
- University of Guam Cooperative Extension & Outreach / Agricultural Experiment Station
- Page
- 3
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Botryodiplodia theobromae (= Lasiodiplodia theobromae) is a broad-host-range tropical pathogen; eggplant stem/fruit rot in Guam tropical context is biologically reasonable.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Lasiodiplodia theobromae has documented broad host range including Solanaceae; stem-end rot on eggplant fruit/stem is well-attested in tropical phytopathology literature.”
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