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WASHINGTON - An international team of scientists has decoded the full genetic sequence, or genome, of Phytophthora infestans, which is a water mold that causes the serious potato disease known as late blight or potato blight.

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Well, it turns out that the Irish potato famine was caused by a fungus (properly known as Phytophthora infestans) that originated in Mexico and which is capable of reproducing not only sexually but also asexually.

Did You Know? A fungus from Mexico and the Irish potato famine 2008

In May, the office of Jon Traunfeld, director of the HGIC, issued an alert about the early onset of late blight (Phytopthera infestans).

Beware of late blight, and report damage 2010

Well, it turns out that the Irish potato famine was caused by a fungus (properly known as Phytophthora infestans) that originated in Mexico and which is capable of reproducing not only sexually but also asexually.

Did You Know? A fungus from Mexico and the Irish potato famine 2008

The proximate cause of the Great Irish Famine (1846-52) was the fungus phythophtera infestans (or potato blight), which reached Ireland in the fall of 1845.

Irish famine 2009

Finally, though the introduction of new potato varieties offered some respite against phythophtera infestans thereafter, no reliable defense would be found against it until the 1890s.

Irish famine 2009

Their friends, the petunia borer (infestans septic pestans) and the potato cockroach (Fenianianii cthulumite) would die, too.

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Then in 1845, a fungus, Phytophothora infestans, arrived from America, and wiped out the entire potato crop.

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They had also looked into infecting potatoes with phytophthora infestans, or potato blight—the disease that brought on famine in Ireland in the mid-nineteenth century.

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Phytophthera infestans is a water mold which causes Late Blight of Potato.

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