Claim · #6496300
Pyricularia setariae · pathogen pressure · Eleusine coracana
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“finger millet, Eleusine coracana, which, when attacked before grain formation, can suffer complete loss”
- Source
- Plant Disease: A Threat to Global Food Security
- Authors
- Strange R.N., Scott P.R.
- Year
- 2005
- Publication
- Annual Review of Phytopathology
- Page
- 93
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Finger millet blast caused by Pyricularia setariae (now P. grisea/P. pennisetigena complex) causing pre-grain-formation total yield loss is consistent with East African/Indian reports.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Pyricularia infection of finger millet panicles at pre-grain stage can indeed cause complete loss; species naming is older but acceptable taxonomy.”
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