Claim · #6496302
Pythium aphanidermatum · pathogen pressure · Capsicum annuum
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“P. aphanidermatum and P. myriotylum cause severe root rot in bell pepper with 42% and 62% plant mortality”
- 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
“Pythium aphanidermatum as a major root rot oomycete on bell pepper with high mortality rates aligns with horticultural pathology literature.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“P. aphanidermatum is a canonical Pythium root rot pathogen on Capsicum; quote directly supports 42% mortality figure.”
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