Claim · #6496301
Gibberella fujikuroi · pathogen pressure · Zea mays
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“fumonisin toxins were discovered as a result of an investigation into the high level of esophogeal cancer”
- 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
“Gibberella fujikuroi (Fusarium verticillioides/moniliforme) on maize producing fumonisins linked to Transkei esophageal cancer is well-documented in mycotoxin literature.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Fumonisin B1 from F. verticillioides (teleomorph G. fujikuroi) on maize and its Transkei esophageal cancer link is canonical; pest_common_name conflates teleomorph/anamorph but pathogen-host is correct.”
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