Claim · #6496026
Sclerotium rolfsii · pathogen pressure · Solanum lycopersicum
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“White fungal growth is produced on the stem at the soil line”
- Source
- International Cooperators' Guide: Procedures for Tomato Variety Field Trials (#11-751)
- Authors
- Hanson P., Lin L., Luther G.C., Tsai W., Srinivasan R., Chen C., Lin C., Sheu Z., Lu S.
- Year
- 2021
- Publication
- World Vegetable Center (WorldVeg / AVRDC)
- Page
- 9
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Sclerotium rolfsii southern blight produces the described white mycelium and tan sclerotia at the soil line on tomato.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“S. rolfsii fungal classification, soil-line symptoms, and mustard-seed sclerotia are diagnostic and correct.”
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