Aug 20, 2009

Late Blight Pathogen Spreads to State’s Potato Crop

The plant pathogen best known for causing the Irish potato famine, Phytophthora infestans, was just discovered in two commercial potato fields in two separate Wisconsin counties. Before this, the outbreak of late blight, as the disease is known, had been confined to tomato plants. University of Wisconsin-Madison News

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