Blight, especially in potatoes, is a serious fungal disease caused by the pathogen Phytophthora infestans. It is infamous for causing the Irish Potato Famine. To this day, it remains a significant ...

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 ...

A new study challenges the common theory that the devastating potato blight pathogen Phytophthora infestans originated in Mexico. Researchers meticulously reconstructed its global migration ...

A genetic investigation has finally tracked down the source of the pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine, closing a case that has been up in the air for years. Researchers nailed down the Andes ...

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 ...

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 ...

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