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

A genetic investigation has finally tracked down the source of the pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine, closing a case that has been up in the air for years. Researchers nailed down the Andes ...

Researchers firmly point the finger at the South American Andes Mountains as the place where the Irish potato famine pathogen, Phtytophthora infestans, originated. Call it a mystery solved.

North Carolina State University researchers firmly point the finger at the South American Andes Mountains as the place where the Irish potato famine pathogen ... still causes late-blight disease ...

Scientists have discovered new evidence that the pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine may have originated thousands of miles away. A study that examined the DNA of Phytophthora (P.) ...

Phytophthora-infected cacao pods develop lesions, which eventually host white fluffy growth before the pods shrivel into a ...

Airdrops like this are a slender life line in a rugged and inhospitable region where famine has already been ... their bodies – a marker of damage caused by malnourishment.

Meaning “plant destroyer” in Greek, Phytophthora is infamous as including the pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine in the mid-19 th century. Phytophthora-infected cacao pods develop ...

Furthermore, the monarchy prevented others from donating more to the cause than the queen ... sent the potato blight, but the English created the Famine.” Far from helping the victims of the ...

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