Claim · #6496043
viruses (multiple) · pathogen pressure · Capsicum annuum
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“yellow spots, curling and crinkling, mottling, mosaic and curling, chlorosis”
- Source
- International Cooperators' Guide: Procedures for Chili Pepper Variety Field Trials (#14-784)
- Authors
- Lin S., Shieh H., Lin L., Sheu Z., Kenyon L., Srinivasan R., Kumar S.
- Year
- 2021
- Publication
- World Vegetable Center (WorldVeg / AVRDC)
- Page
- 7
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Mosaic, mottling, leaf curl, and chlorosis are classic symptoms of multiple pepper-infecting viruses; aggregated 'viruses (multiple)' entry is generic but biologically reasonable.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Symptoms match common pepper viruses (CMV, TMV, PVY, ToMV, PepMV); generic 'multiple viruses' subject is imprecise but pathologically valid.”
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