Claim · #6496428
Candidatus Phytoplasma asteris · pathogen pressure · ornamental flowers
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“stop leafhoppers from infecting his flowers with aster yellows disease”
- Source
- Manage Insects on Your Farm: A Guide to Ecological Strategies
- Authors
- Altieri M.A., Nicholls C.I., Fritz M.A.
- Year
- 2005
- Publication
- Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) Handbook Series Book 7
- Page
- 48
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Aster yellows phytoplasma is leafhopper-vectored and infects many flowering crops including asters/composites. 24-hour figure plausible but not in quote.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Candidatus Phytoplasma asteris is leafhopper-transmitted (Macrosteles spp.); affects ornamental composites. 24-hr transmission time not in quote but biologically possible.”
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