Claim · model-written summary
The disease causes a decrease in tobacco leaf yield.
- Taxon
- Tobacco
Nicotiana tabacumt0 - Outcome
- tobacco leaf yielde1
- Direction
- decreasee1
Verbatim
t0“Causing Leaf Spot on Tobacco”
e1“The disease spreads widely and causes a decrease in tobacco leaf yield”
Title
First Report of Pestalotiopsis trachycarpicola Causing Leaf Spot on Tobacco in China
Weili Gang; Weijun Sang; Yi Cao; et al. Plant Disease 2025. doi:10.1094/pdis-05-25-1076-pdn
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Observation About 20% of tobacco plants in a 20-acre field showed growth suppression and yield reduction.
- Observation Leaf appearance quality of tobacco deteriorated after the chemical balance of the leaves was disrupted.
- Observation The isolates clustered in the same clade as Pestalotiopsis trachycarpicola.
- Intervention effect Wound inoculation with the fungus produced necrotic spots on three tobacco cultivars, unlike PDA plug controls.
- Observation Pestalotiopsis trachycarpicola was re-isolated from inoculated tobacco leaves, fulfilling Koch’s postulates.