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Claim · #6495759

Fusarium graminearum · pathogen pressure · Triticum aestivum

pathogen pressure · effect: harmful

pathogenOf GloBI relation

Verbatim source quote

“highly destructive pathogen of all cereal species”
Authors
Dean R., van Kan J.A.L., Pretorius Z.A., Hammond-Kosack K.E., Di Pietro A., Spanu P.D., Rudd J.J., Dickman M., Kahmann R., Ellis J., Foster G.D.
Year
2012
Publication
Molecular Plant Pathology
Page
419

AI critic verdicts

  • agroecologist · plausible

    “Fusarium graminearum is the well-known causal agent of Fusarium head blight on wheat at flowering, producing mycotoxins.”

  • plant-pathologist · plausible

    “F. graminearum causes FHB on wheat at anthesis with DON/zearalenone contamination; classification as fungal pathogen is correct.”

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