DNA study shows the deadly potato blight came from South America.

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

When it comes to one of the most infamous disasters in Irish history, there's still more to be learned, including exactly ...

Researchers nailed down the Andes Mountains in South America as the birthplace of Phytophthora infestans, otherwise known as potato blight or late blight. Previously, the debate on the origins of P.

The potato blight that sparked The Great Famine appeared ... blight caused crop losses of between 33 and 50 per cent in North America between 1843 and 1845, the study, published in Scientific ...

Thousands of people emigrated to America across the Atlantic Ocean ... when the potato harvest failed again in 1846 due to the potato blight. The British government did try and help a little.

A hybrid potato that is resistant to the crop-destroying fungus known as blight is being trailed as a potential saviour of some of the country's best-known varieties of spud. The so-called ...

From left to right, the trees are a blight-susceptible wild-type American chestnut (C. dentata) called Ellis 1, a blight-resistant Chinese chestnut (C. mollissima) tree called 'Qing,' and two ...

Scotland's History Land and Votes Potato blight ruins Scottish crops The Adobe Flash player and Javascript are required in order to view a video which appears on this page. You may wish to ...

In the early 20th century, a blight fungus wiped out most of the 4 billion American chestnut trees on the eastern seaboard. The loss was... Blight destroyed the American chestnut tree. Can ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The Irish potato famine pathogen, Phytophthora infestans, is traced back to the Andes Mountains in South America, not Mexico. Genetic analysis reveals that P ...