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MICROBES AND INFECTION
Volume 4, Issue 13, Pages 1369-1377Publisher
EDITIONS SCIENTIFIQUES MEDICALES ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/S1286-4579(02)00010-2
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Phytophthora injestans; late blight of potatoes; plant disease epidemiology; ancient DNA
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The plant pathogen Phytophthora infestans causes late blight, a devastating disease on potato that led to the Irish potato famine during 1845-1847. The disease is considered a reemerging problem and still causes major epidemics on both potato and tomato crops worldwide. Theories on the origin of the disease based on an examination of the genetic diversity and structure of P. infestans populations and use of historic specimens to understand modern day epidemics are discussed. (C) 2002 Editions scientifiques et medicales Elsevier SAS. All rights reserved.
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