The U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved a potato genetically engineered by Idaho-based J.R. Simplot Co. to resist the pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine and that still damages crops ...

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An international research team has decoded the genome of the notorious blight that caused the Irish potato famine in the 1840s. That same organism now threatens tomato and potato crops across the U.S.

Researchers tracking the evolution of different strains of the plant pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine in the 1840s show that the historic lineage called FAM-1 was found in nearly ...

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August in Charleston witnesses the loveliest of migrations. Like the swallows of Capistrano or the butterflies of Mexico, students flock back to the city in youthful, idealistic, hedonistic, colorful ...

Their situation was dire. In a small island nation of little importance to the rest of the world, a million people starved to death. Entire villages were abandoned. Families disappeared. But the ...

The devastating Irish potato famine triggered an "arms race" between plants and pathogens, reveals new research. A ground-breaking examination of the genetic material found in historic potato leaves ...