The early days of late blight.
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Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 23795302.
- Also identified by DOI 10.7554/eLife.00954 and PMC identifier 3687336.
- Licence recorded as CC BY.
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Abstract
Large-scale DNA sequencing of samples of foliage collected in the 19th century from plants infected with late blight has shown that the potato famines of the 1840s were triggered by a single clonal lineage of Phytophthora infestans, called HERB-1, which persisted for at least 50 years.
Medical subject headings
- Phytophthora infestans
- Solanum tuberosum
- Starvation