In the mid-19th century, a microscopic invader swept across Ireland, leaving a trail of devastation in its wake. The potato ...

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 ...

But the good news for organically minded gardeners is that a host of new, flavoursome varieties with good blight resistance ...

As if things couldn't get any worse in 2020, Met Éireann has just issued a potato blight warning for Ireland. Having endured tropical storms, coronavirus, and lockdowns already this year, Ireland must ...

US-based scientists have compiled the first-ever maps detailing how potato blight first hit North America in the mid-19th century before crossing the Atlantic Ocean and causing the Great Hunger in ...

Can plant diseases be tracked through analyzing past reports? This is what a recent study published in Scientific Reports hopes to address as a team of researchers at North Carolina State University ...

In a March 18 article on the Irish potato blight, agents used to exterminate the disease were incorrectly described as herbicides. They should have been described as fungicides.(Published 3/20/02) The ...

LARIMORE, N.D. - John Morten, who learned to fly as a boy of 17, provides a textbook example of how to keep potatoes safe from blight. It's a big deal this year because, for the first time in a decade ...

With winter weather turning increasingly cloudy and foggy, potato growers in Punjab have been put on alert as conditions are becoming favourable for the outbreak of late blight disease. Over the past ...