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A group of researchers is turning to AI to try to combat potato blight, a disease that has led to around 20% of global potato crop losses amounting to financial losses of over $4.5 billion. The new AI ...

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 ...

Scientists are using new technologies to study old samples of potato leaves to track the origin of the blight that wiped out the Irish potato crop 150 years ago. DNA tests suggest this fungus-like ...

Potato farmers in the North Rift are staring at heavy losses following the ongoing heavy rains. The crops had been attacked by blight, which has been made worse by the rains. Newly germinated crops in ...

LARIMORE, N.D. -- Potato producers attending the Northern Plains Potato Growers Association's field days at Hoverson Farms in Larimore, N.D., were treated to a nasty surprise when North Dakota State ...

An international team of researchers has made an important discovery in the fight against the potato blight that caused the Irish Famine in the 1840s. Researchers from The Sainsbury Lab in the UK and ...

A purple potato from Eastern Europe may be the key to solving the biggest economic obstacle facing the organic farming industry. The variety, so obscure that it has no name, appears to be almost ...

A fungal disease, similar to the blight that wiped out Ireland's potato crop in the 1840s, has been confirmed in Columbia County potato crops, University of Wisconsin-Extension Agriculture Agent Joe ...