The Great Famine that wiped out nearly a third of Ireland's population was caused by a devastating plant disease that was ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The funding will support the development of Mycoverse’s first solution targeting potato late blight, a major crop disease in ...

MONTPELIER The disease known as "late blight" that continues to move swiftly through stretches of Vermont's potato crop destroying pockets of seemingly healthy plants in a matter of days also poses a ...

LARIMORE, N.D. -- Potato producers attending the Northern Plains Potato Growers Association's "Field Days 2009" in Larimore were treated to a nasty surprise when North Dakota State University plant ...

Penn State researchers collect suspect plants from a potato field. The samples will be studied further in their laboratory. Michael Brooks has been farming in South Jersey his whole life. He grows ...