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 ...

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 ...

Scouring the genome of a wild Mexican potato, scientists have discovered a gene that protects potatoes against late blight, the devastating disease that caused the Irish potato famine. MADISON - ...

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 ...

An international research team has decoded the genome of the notorious blight that caused the Irish potato famine in the 1840s. That same organism now threatens tomato and potato crops across the U.S.

Q. Our neighbor says he lost all his tomato plants to late blight several years ago. What is late blight? — Dennis, Harris A. Late blight is a plant disease that mainly attacks potatoes and tomatoes, ...