A group of researchers is turning to AI to try to combat potato blight, a disease that has led to around 20% of global potato crop losses amounting to financial losses of over $4.5 billion. The new AI ...

According to The Standard, researchers at the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization have used genetic ...

New York student Benjamin "Benjy" Firester has won one of the United States' top young science prizes for his research on the devastating microorganism which caused the Irish Potato Famine, devising a ...

The Irish potato famine of 1845–52 resulted in more than a million deaths. Another million people were displaced, and Ireland’s population was reduced by about 25%. The cause of widespread potato rot ...

A fungal disease, similar to the blight that wiped out Ireland's potato crop in the 1840s, has been confirmed in Columbia County potato crops, University of Wisconsin-Extension Agriculture Agent Joe ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. The devastating Irish potato famine triggered an “arms race” between plants and pathogens, ...

If you’ve had to change your buying habits at the supermarket lately to save money, you’re not alone. The stratospheric rise in food prices in the last three years has forced many families to forgo ...

“I can’t believe that!” said Alice. “Can’t you?” the Queen said in a pitying tone. “Try again: draw a long breath, and shut your eyes.” Even with much holding of breath and shutting of eyes, U.S.

MONTPELIER The disease known as "late blight" that continues to move swiftly through stretches of Vermont's potato crop destroying pockets of seemingly healthy plants in a matter of days also poses a ...

In a March 18 article on the Irish potato blight, agents used to exterminate the disease were incorrectly described as herbicides. They should have been described as fungicides.(Published 3/20/02) The ...

We now know what caused the Irish potato famine. Scientists have pinpointed the pathogen by using plant samples collected in the mid-19th century. Weekends on All Things Considered host Jacki Lyden ...