Sure, scientists have known for a while that a funguslike organism called Phytophthora infestans was responsible for the potato blight that plagued Ireland starting in the 1840s. But there are ...

The potato blight, caused by the fungus-like pathogen Phytophthora infestans, triggered a famine that killed over a million people and forced millions more to flee. For over a century, scientists ...

It has been known that Phytophthora infestans, a fungus-like organism that devastated potato crops, led to the famine in Ireland. But the precise strain of the pathogen that caused the devastating ...

Researchers nailed down the Andes Mountains in South America as the birthplace of Phytophthora infestans, otherwise known as potato blight or late blight. Previously, the debate on the origins of P.

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The Irish potato famine pathogen, Phytophthora infestans, is traced back to the Andes Mountains in South America, not Mexico. Genetic analysis reveals that P ...

We know that the pathogen that caused the famine was Phytophthora infestans, a fungus-like microorganism that infects potato plants through their leaves, but the full story has always been a mystery.

ipomoea deutliche Unterschiede zum Erbgut von P. infestans. Wie die Wissenschaftler vermuten, lag in den südamerikanischen Anden ein Hotspot für die Bildung neuer Arten der Gattung Phytophthora, die ...

Reconstructing the global migration history of Phytophthora infestans towards Colombia. Phytopathology® , 2024; DOI: 10.1094/PHYTO-05-24-0163-R Cite This Page : ...

THE causal organism of potato blight, Phytophthora infestans (Mont) de Bary, has been subjected to very close investigation since it was first described just over a century ago. It is only in ...