The potato blight, caused by the fungus-like pathogen Phytophthora infestans, triggered a famine that killed over a million ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...