Scientists on Monday said they have found a gene to help protect potatoes from a blight that unleashed a devastating famine in Ireland in the 19th century. The genes were located after an exhaustive ...

(Phys.org)—As the annual potato harvest begins, Wisconsin farmers continue to check their fields for late blight, the ferocious plant disease that caused the 1848 Irish potato famine and fueled ...

Scientists at J.R. Simplot Company developed a potato genetically engineered to resist the late blight that destroyed crops of potatoes in Ireland in the 1840s and 1850s leading to the Irish Potato ...

Home gardeners beware: This year, late blight -- a destructive infectious disease that caused the Irish potato famine in the 1840s -- is killing tomato and potato plants in gardens and on commercial ...

New disease-resistant potato plants can now be developed after a team of researchers has successfully cracked the full genetic code of the crop—making it the first leading crop plant to be sequenced.

Potato blight is a constant threat for gardeners growing this veg. It is a very common fungal disease that is capable of wiping out a crop if left undetected. To "save" potatoes from this disease, ...

It has been more than 150 years since the Irish potato famine, when the funguslike disease called blight annihilated the staple food for millions of people. But blight is still the most serious potato ...

A new aggressive potato blight strain was detected in Wales and eastern Scotland earlier this year. The strain, identified as EU 46, can withstand certain fungicides, making it harder to control. It ...

A NEW strain of British genetically modified potato ­appears immune to the devastating fungus responsible for the Great Famine of 1845 in Ireland, ­research has shown. Did you know with a Digital ...

Scientists have discovered vital clues as to how the pathogen responsible for the Irish potato famine adapted to spread between different plant species by looking in unprecedented detail at how ...

correctionIn a March 18 article on the Irish potato blight, agents used to exterminate the disease were incorrectly described as herbicides. They should have been described as fungicides.(Published ...