Claim · #6495827
Phytophthora infestans · pathogen pressure · Solanum tuberosum
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Late blight is the most dreaded fungal disease”
- 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
- 10
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Phytophthora infestans is the canonical late blight oomycete on potato; high impact accurate.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Correctly typed as oomycete (not fungus), pathogenOf potato, leaf/stem/tuber lesions match late blight biology.”
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