Claim · #6496292
Phytophthora infestans · pathogen pressure · Solanum tuberosum
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“P. infestans... costing annually on a global basis in excess of $5 billion”
- Source
- Plant Disease: A Threat to Global Food Security
- Authors
- Strange R.N., Scott P.R.
- Year
- 2005
- Publication
- Annual Review of Phytopathology
- Page
- 94
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Phytophthora infestans as potato late blight pathogen is canonical; oomycete classification, foliage/tuber damage, and economic impact all biologically correct.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“P. infestans is the canonical potato late blight oomycete; affected parts (foliage/tubers), impact class, and Irish famine attribution are textbook-correct.”
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