Claim · #6495951
Hemileia vastatrix · pathogen pressure · Coffea arabica
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Yield losses in coffee greater than 50% occurred”
- 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
“Hemileia vastatrix outbreaks in Central America caused major coffee yield losses and labor displacement.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Hemileia vastatrix is the rust fungus causing coffee leaf rust on Coffea arabica leaves with documented >50% losses.”
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