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 ...

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

Phytophthora root rot. These are exciting times for American chestnut restoration but we still have more to do. As the old Chinese proverb goes, "One Generation Plants the Tree, the Next Generation ...

Researchers nailed down the Andes Mountains in South America as the birthplace of Phytophthora infestans, otherwise known as potato blight or late blight. Previously, the debate on the origins of P.

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 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 ...