A new study demonstrates that combining fiber optic reflectance and terahertz spectroscopy can detect potato late blight ...

Recognizing the Early Symptoms Blight often strikes fear in gardeners’ hearts, and for good reason: it can spread at lightning speed when the conditions are right. This disease loves one thing above ...

However, growing potatoes is not an easy feat. A great number of plant diseases elect potatoes as their hosts, upon which ...

Potatoes are the third most important food crop in the world after rice and wheat in terms of human consumption. But globally, potato production is threatened by potato late blight, one of the most ...

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 ...

Newswise — Potato is the world’s fourth most important food crop, yet it remains highly vulnerable to late blight caused by the oomycete Phytophthora infestans, which results in billions of dollars in ...

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 ...