However, this lucrative investment can result into frustration especially if diseases strike ... Infected potato tubers have brown corky scabs or pits. These spots enlarge and merge together ...

Potato blight or 'late blight' is a devastating fungus disease that spreads rapidly in wet weather. Like a mildew disease, to which it is related, it attacks the foliage, but can get washed down to ...

Scotland's History Land and Votes Potato blight ruins Scottish crops The Adobe Flash player and Javascript are required in order to view a video which appears on this page. You may wish to ...

“Climate change is bringing more drought to higher Andean elevations, so we could be losing some of these potatoes before we learn if they could provide resistance to late-blight disease.” Ristaino ...

A hybrid potato that is resistant to the crop-destroying fungus known as blight is being trailed as a potential saviour of some of the country's best-known varieties of spud. The so-called ...

Researchers nailed down the Andes Mountains in South America as the birthplace of Phytophthora infestans, otherwise known as potato blight or late blight ... we show that the whole Andean region is a ...

A separate trial sought to understand the impact of using biostimulants as a way to strengthen potato plants to better withstand late blight. This trial used Sirius, a silicon-based biostimulant ...