Claim · model-written summary
The authors recommend identifying the causal agent to estimate rhubarb spot disease risk accurately.
- Taxon
- rhubarb
Rheum rhabarbarume0 - Outcome
- identify the causal agent of leaf and petiole spot diseasese0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e0“it is important to identify the causal agent of leaf and petiole spot diseases in rhubarb field crops in order to estimate disease risks accurately.”
Title
Y. Zhao; B. W. Grout; X. Xu Plant Pathology 2006. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3059.2006.01394.x
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