Claim · #6496293
African cassava mosaic virus · pathogen pressure · Manihot esculenta
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“the area affected by the severe form of the disease had expanded to cover virtually all Uganda”
- Source
- Plant Disease: A Threat to Global Food Security
- Authors
- Strange R.N., Scott P.R.
- Year
- 2005
- Publication
- Annual Review of Phytopathology
- Page
- 86
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“ACMV and recombinant variants causing severe cassava mosaic disease across East Africa is well-documented; Uganda epidemic and regional spread are accurate.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“African cassava mosaic virus (begomovirus, Geminiviridae) is canonical cassava pathogen; Uganda epidemic well-documented in plant pathology literature.”
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