The Irish potato famine of 1845–52 resulted in more than a million deaths. Another million people were displaced, and Ireland’s population was reduced by about 25%. The cause of widespread potato rot ...

New York student Benjamin "Benjy" Firester has won one of the United States' top young science prizes for his research on the devastating microorganism which caused the Irish Potato Famine, devising a ...

The first accurate maps of outbreaks of potato blight — a disease caused by the fungus-like pathogen Phytophthora infestans that was responsible for the Irish potato famine between 1845 and 1852 — in ...

A new study challenges the common theory that the devastating potato blight pathogen Phytophthora infestans originated in Mexico. Researchers meticulously reconstructed its global migration history ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. The devastating Irish potato famine triggered an “arms race” between plants and pathogens, ...

MONTPELIER The disease known as "late blight" that continues to move swiftly through stretches of Vermont's potato crop destroying pockets of seemingly healthy plants in a matter of days also poses a ...

In 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 3/20/02) The ...

Scientists have discovered new evidence that the pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine may have originated thousands ...

If you’ve had to change your buying habits at the supermarket lately to save money, you’re not alone. The stratospheric rise in food prices in the last three years has forced many families to forgo ...

FARGO - Late blight has been confirmed in a potato field in Dickey County in southeastern North Dakota, according to Nick David, Extension potato agronomist at North Dakota State University. This ...