Potato blight, one of the world’s most devastating crop diseases, could soon be detected using mobile phones thanks to a new ...

Project aims to develop a mobile phone app that uses artificial intelligence to provide early warnings of diseases in ...

Late blight is a fungal disease that affects potatoes and tomatoes, and can cause widespread crop destruction. The disease ...

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 ...

The researchers examined the historical spread of the fungus-like oomycete Phytophthora infestans, known as the Irish potato famine pathogen.

Potato pathogens have been catastrophic in the past, most notably during the 1845-52 Irish Potato Famine, which was caused by an infestation of the fungus Phytophthora infestans, also known as the ...

Phytophthora infestans, just one of about 100 identified Phytophthora species, was the culprit in the 1840s Irish Potato Famine that left an estimated 2 million Irish people dead, according to ...

Late blight, scientifically known as Phytophthora infestans, is the most threatening potato disease and can also affect tomatoes.

Incidence of the potato late blight pathogen, Phytophthora infestans, in Syria and its mating type Walid Naffaa Soulima Ibrahim Antonious Al-Daoude Journal of Plant Diseases and Protection (2017) ...

Ristaino, who published a paper in Nature in 2001 identifying the strain of Phytophthora infestans that caused the Irish potato famine, hopes to eventually integrate physical maps with the T-BAS ...