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Phytophthora infestans

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Great Famine

  • Rowan Gillespie: Famine
    In Great Famine

    …blight is the water mold Phytophthora infestans. The Irish famine was the worst to occur in Europe in the 19th century.

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  • blight
    In plant disease: Nature and importance of plant diseases

    …(caused by the water mold Phytophthora infestans) that began in Europe in 1845 brought about the Great Famine that caused starvation, death, and mass migration of the Irish. Of Ireland’s population of more than eight million, approximately one million (about 12.5 percent) died of starvation or famine-related illness, and 1.5…

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late blight

  • potato: late blight
    In late blight

    …caused by the water mold Phytophthora infestans. The disease occurs in humid regions with temperatures ranging between 4 and 29 °C (40 and 80 °F). Hot dry weather checks its spread. Potato or tomato plants that are infected may rot within two weeks. The Great Famine in Ireland in the…

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