The first accurate maps of outbreaks of potato blight — a disease caused by the fungus-like pathogen Phytophthora infestans that was responsible for the Irish potato famine between 1845 and 1852 — in ...
An international team of researchers has made an important discovery in the fight against the potato blight that caused the Irish Famine in the 1840s. Researchers from The Sainsbury Lab in the UK and ...
Russia is teetering on the brink of a large-scale potato crisis ignited by the same virulent, fungal-like pathogen, Phytophthora infestans , more commonly called late blight, that was responsible for ...
Researchers are working to find out more about blight in plants such as potatoes. The disease has caused both famine and waves of human migration. They are focusing primarily on researching the ...
An international research team has decoded the genome of the notorious blight that caused the Irish potato famine in the 1840s. That same organism now threatens tomato and potato crops across the U.S.