Spread of 'leaf blight' disease, locally known as patamora rog, has put potato farmers in five upazilas of Thakurgaon district in a difficult siatuation. As the affected farmers are reaping potato ...

That tomato or potato plant you bought may contain one of the most serious of diseases, the same one that caused the potato famine in Ireland in the 1840s. Our wet and cool weather has been nearly ...

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 ...

Scientists from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi have developed a computational model for automated disease detection in potato crops using photographs of the leaves. The research led by ...

For the first time, scientists have identified the existence in Álava-Araba of the two sexual types A1 and A2 of the fungus Phytophthora infestans, responsible for potato blight. Plant lesions become ...

OBSERVATIONS on the potato variety Ulster Supreme made at Cambridge in 1956 indicated that blight (Phytophthora infestans) was present on approximately twice as many tubers derived from plants ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS — A blight that caused the 1840s Irish Potato Famine has local growers and New York agricultural leaders on high alert. The fungal disease, called late blight, affects potatoes, ...

Those delicious, golden fries you've enjoyed recently may have come from a potato called Defender. This excellent potato is the offspring of two parent potatoes chosen in 1990 by prominent ...