A close look at potato late blight

October 17, 2016
A close look at potato late blight

Professor Donald Pfister and Jean Beagle Ristaino's latest article in BioScience"What a Painfully Interesting Subject": Charles Darwin's Studies of Potato Late Blight, looks closely at the Phytophthora infestans, the pathogen responsible for the 1845 Ireland famine that is still considered a threat to global food security today.