Claim · #6494648
Cacao swollen shoot virus · pathogen pressure · Theobroma cacao
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“affects cacao and cola and causes severe losses”
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- Unknown Plant Pathology Textbook
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AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“CSSV is a well-documented badnavirus causing swollen shoot disease in Theobroma cacao across West Africa (especially Ghana), with classic symptoms matching the extracted fields.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“CSSV (Badnavirus) is well-documented causing swollen shoot disease in Theobroma cacao and Cola in West Africa, particularly Ghana, with described symptoms matching the claim.”
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