Claim · #6495949
Phytophthora infestans · pathogen pressure · Solanum tuberosum
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“In 1845, Phytophthora infestans destroyed the potato crop”
- Authors
- Ristaino J.B., Anderson P.K., Bebber D.P., Brauman K.A., Cunniffe N.J., Fedoroff N.V., Finegold C., Garrett K.A., Gilligan C.A., Jones C.M., Martin M.D., MacDonald G.K., Neenan P., Records A., Schmale D.G., Tateosian L., Wei Q.
- Year
- 2021
- Publication
- PNAS
- Page
- 2
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Phytophthora infestans causing 1845 Irish potato famine is canonical history.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“P. infestans as oomycete causing potato late blight on foliage and tubers is textbook accurate.”
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