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Early blight, caused by Alternaria solani, is also often called "potato blight". Late blight was a major culprit in the 1840s European, the 1845–1852 Irish, and the 1846 Highland potato famines. The organism can also infect some other members of the Solanaceae.
Alternaria solani is a fungal pathogen that produces a disease in tomato and potato plants called early blight. The pathogen produces distinctive "bullseye" patterned leaf spots and can also cause stem lesions and fruit rot on tomato and tuber blight on potato. Despite the name "early", foliar symptoms usually occur on older leaves. [3]
In the early 1800s, a strain of potato blight (Phytophthora infestans) known as HERB-1 began to spread in the Americas, especially Central and North America, destroying many crops. The blight spread to Europe in the 1840s where, because of an extreme lack of genetic diversity, the potato crops were even more susceptible. In Northern Europe ...
Bacterial seedling blight of rice (Oryza sativa), caused by pathogen Burkholderia plantarii [4] Early blight of potato and tomato, caused by species of the ubiquitous fungal genus Alternaria; Leaf blight of the grasses e.g. Ascochyta species [5] and Alternaria triticina that causes blight in wheat [6]
Potato mop-top virus (spraing of tubers) genus Furovirus, Potato mop-top virus (PMTV) Potato rugose mosaic: genus Potyvirus, Potato virus Y (PVY, strains O, N and C) Potato stem mottle (spraing of tubers) genus Tobravirus, Tobacco rattle virus (TRV) Potato spindle tuber: Potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd) Potato yellow dwarf virus
Baked potatoes, smashed potatoes, or potato soup? Google released a map that shows which potato dishes are the most searched for by state ahead of Thanksgiving 2023.
During a break in the rain, farm workers drain lettuce fields of flood water as an atmospheric river storm slams California in Salinas, California, on Friday, March 10, 2023. (Melina Mara/The ...
The Phytophthora group is a paraphyletic genus that causes diseases such as dieback, late blight in potatoes (the cause of the Great Famine of the 1840s that ravaged Ireland and other parts of Europe), [15] sudden oak death, rhododendron root rot, and ink disease in the European chestnut [16]