Claim · #6495831
Streptomyces scabies · pathogen pressure · Solanum tuberosum
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Potato scab is a common tuber 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
- 15
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Streptomyces scabies as actinobacterium causing common scab on tubers is standard agroecology.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Streptomyces scabies (actinobacterium, treated as bacterium) causes corky scab lesions on tubers; classification acceptable.”
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