Claim · #6496125
Cercospora malayensis · pathogen pressure · Abelmoschus esculentus
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Infection by C. malayensis usually starts with small brown irregular spots”
- Source
- Cercospora Leaf Spot of Okra (Abelmoschus esculentus)
- Authors
- World Vegetable Center West and Central Africa
- Year
- 2017
- Publication
- World Vegetable Center fact sheet
- Page
- 1
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Cercospora malayensis is a recognized okra leaf-spot pathogen; symptoms and seasonality (warm rainy) plausible.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“C. malayensis causes okra leaf spot; small brown irregular spots match canonical symptomatology; fungus classification correct.”
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