Claim · #6495635
Puccinia asparagi · pathogen pressure · Asparagus officinalis
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Asparagus rust, a disease which once seriously threatened to impair the California industry”
- Source
- Commercial Vegetable Production in Hawaii
- Authors
- Krauss F.G.
- Year
- 1932
- Publication
- University of Hawaii Agricultural Extension Service Bulletin No. 16
- Page
- 59
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Puccinia asparagi is the canonical asparagus rust fungus historically threatening California production; matches source.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Puccinia asparagi is a basidiomycete rust attacking asparagus foliage; classification and host align with established mycology.”
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