Claim · #6495743
Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. batatas · pathogen pressure · Ipomoea batatas
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Fusarium oxysporum...batatas...can be a serious pest in sweetpotato”
- Source
- Sweetpotato Production Guides for Hawai'i
- Authors
- Valenzuela, Hector; Fukuda, Steven; Arakaki, Alton
- Year
- 1994
- Publication
- CTAHR Research Extension Series 146
- Page
- 7
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. batatas causes vascular stem rot/wilt in sweetpotato; biologically standard.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“F. oxysporum f. sp. batatas is the recognized formae speciales causing sweetpotato stem rot; vascular tissue affected correctly.”
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