In one of the largest genetic studies of its kind, they have traced the origins of the potato blight to the Andes. The ...

FARGO - Late blight has been confirmed in a potato field in Dickey County in southeastern North Dakota, according to Nick David, Extension potato agronomist at North Dakota State University. This ...

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 ...

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 ...

New York student Benjamin "Benjy" Firester has won one of the United States' top young science prizes for his research on the devastating microorganism which caused the Irish Potato Famine, devising a ...

A new aggressive potato blight strain was detected in Wales and eastern Scotland earlier this year. The strain, identified as EU 46, can withstand certain fungicides, making it harder to control. It ...

The source of the pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine has finally been identified. Researchers from North Carolina ...

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

Late blight has been found in potato fields in western Minnesota and North Dakota's Walsh County, the state's leading potato producer. The highly contagious fungus, which caused the disastrous Irish ...

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 ...