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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

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 ...