Claim · #6496296
Cochliobolus heterostrophus · pathogen pressure · Zea mays
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“the corn (maize) crop was completely destroyed by another fungus... Cochliobolus heterostrophus”
- Source
- Plant Disease: A Threat to Global Food Security
- Authors
- Strange R.N., Scott P.R.
- Year
- 2005
- Publication
- Annual Review of Phytopathology
- Page
- 84
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Cochliobolus heterostrophus (race T) caused the 1970-71 southern corn leaf blight epidemic in US maize via Tcms cytoplasm vulnerability; textbook-canonical.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Cochliobolus heterostrophus race T causing the 1970-71 US southern corn leaf blight epidemic is canonical plant pathology; Tcms cytoplasm monoculture vulnerability well-documented.”
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