Claim · #6495953
African cassava mosaic virus · pathogen pressure · Manihot esculenta
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Cassava mosaic virus (CMV) causes over $1 billion in losses”
- 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
“Cassava mosaic begomoviruses cause major yield losses in East Africa; role and host accurate.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“African cassava mosaic virus is a leaf-symptom begomovirus pathogen of cassava; subject/object correctly oriented.”
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