Claim · #6495826
Alternaria solani · pathogen pressure · Solanum tuberosum
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Early blight... causes about 20-30 per cent yield loss every year”
- Source
- Field Guide for Identification of Major Potato Pests and Diseases in Meghalaya, India
- Authors
- Ali S.
- Year
- 2018
- Publication
- International Potato Center (CIP), FoodSTART+
- Page
- 9
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Alternaria solani as fungal pathogen of potato causing early blight is well-established; yield loss range plausible.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Alternaria solani correctly classified as fungus, pathogenOf potato; concentric ring lesions on leaves/tubers are textbook.”
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