DNA study shows the deadly potato blight came from South America.

American Journal of Botany, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Jan., 1927), pp. 1-15 (17 pages) The Phytophthora blight of citrus attacks young succulent growths and seedlings of Citrus spp. at Los Baños, Philippine ...

When it comes to one of the most infamous disasters in Irish history, there's still more to be learned, including exactly ...

The blight tolerant American chestnut trees are undergoing extensive ... oxidase gene and to possibly enhance resistance to another known chestnut disease, Phytophthora root rot. These are exciting ...

While many trees in the southern range were killed by Phytophthora root rot (PRR), the chestnut blight leaves roots intact, so many chestnuts have been surviving by growing back from the roots ...

A study that examined the DNA of Phytophthora (P ... Also known as the Great Hunger, the devastating blight that affected crops is estimated to have killed around one million people between ...

The event is part of an effort to disseminate information from a multi-state research project dedicated to curbing Phytophthora blight caused by a soilborne pathogen known as Phytophthora capsici.

The pathogen still causes late-blight disease on potato and tomato ... infestans with those of close relative pathogens—Phytophthora andina and Phytophthora betacei—which are only found ...