Claim · #6496219
Clavibacter michiganensis · pathogen pressure · Solanum lycopersicum
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“seed-borne diseases such as bacterial spot, canker, and speck”
- Source
- Saving Seeds of Tomato
- Authors
- Sukprakarn S., Juntakool S., Huang R., Kalb T.
- Year
- 2006
- Publication
- AVRDC - The World Vegetable Center, Publication No. 06-652
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. michiganensis is a high-impact seed-borne vascular pathogen of tomato.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Bacterial canker is the canonical seed-borne, vascular-colonizing tomato disease caused by C. michiganensis.”
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