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DNA decoded for Irish potato famine bug

Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Chicago : IL : USA | 2 months ago

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An international team of scientists has sequenced the genome of the organism that causes potato blight, the disease that caused the 19th-century Irish potato famine and continues to threaten crops. Decoding the entire genetic fingerprint of the organism, called P.

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Potato blight behind Irish famine DNA is decoded

News Source: BBC | 2 months ago

Phytophthora infestans, or "potato blight" still costs the industry more than £3bn a year due to crop failures. Researchers at Dundee University and the Scottish Crop Research Institute, have found that the pathogen is highly adaptable and can...
P. infestans pathogen genome for Irish potato famine decoded

News Source: Times Online | 2 months ago

The pathogen genome for the Irish potato famine has been decoded, explaining why the disease is so aggressive and persistent. Scientists from the Sainsbury Laboratory in Norwich, writing in Nature , hope that knowing the genetic sequence will allow...
Scientists decode genome of mold that causes potato infection

News Source: NewKerala | 2 months ago

About 75 percent of the genome contains repetitious DNA, which is now seen as key to understanding late blight's destructive potential. We now have a comprehensive view of its genome, revealing the unusual properties that drive its remarkable...
Financial Times: Genome of potato blight organism decoded

News Source: Uinta County News | 2 months ago

Published: September 10 2009 03:23 Last updated: September 10 2009 03:23 Scientists have discovered the genetic reason for the adaptability and virulence of the potato blight organism, which caused the Irish famine of the 1840s and is responsible...
Scots team aid research that could mash potato blight

News Source: The Scotsman | 2 months ago

Phytophthora infestans â potato blight â was once thought to be a fungus, but is now known to be a kind of water mould, related to the parasites that cause malaria in animals and humans...Farmers try to grow resistant varieties of potato,...
Scientists unlock secrets of Irish potato famine gene (Reuters)

News Source: Xtra News | 2 months ago

Scientists have unlocked the genetic code of late blight -- the plant pathogen that sparked the Irish potato famine of the 1840s and 1850s -- and it is revealing clues about why it has been such a formidable foe. They said on Wednesday the...