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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

An international team of molecular biologists studied the historical spread of Phytophthora infestans, a funguslike organism that devastated potato crops and led to the famine in Ireland.

The work, which exploits a natural process where plant cells die on purpose to help the host plant stay healthy, is expected ...

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 ...

Kann man Tomaten bei Braunfäule noch essen? In diesem Jahr hat die Kraut- und Braunfäule (Phytophthora infestans) vielerorts die Tomatenernte zunichtegemacht. Die Krankheit befällt die gesamte ...