Claim · #6496295
Barley yellow dwarf virus · pathogen pressure · Zea mays
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“grain yield of maize infected with the PAV serotype of the virus was 15%-20% less”
- Source
- Plant Disease: A Threat to Global Food Security
- Authors
- Strange R.N., Scott P.R.
- Year
- 2005
- Publication
- Annual Review of Phytopathology
- Page
- 85
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“BYDV infects maize and reduces grain yield; PAV serotype impact of 15-20% is documented and consistent with cereal yellow dwarf complex literature.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“BYDV (now part of CYDV complex) is a known maize pathogen with documented yield impacts; source quote directly supports 15-20% reduction figure.”
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