Phylogenetic relationships of Phytophthora andina, a new species from the highlands of Ecuador that is closely related to the Irish potato famine pathogen Phytophthora infestans Mycologia, 100 (4) (2008), pp. 590-602 View in ScopusGoogle Scholar [43] R.F. Oliva, L.P.N.M. Kroon, G. Chac...
Irish potato crop fails; beginning of the Great Famine Benjamin Disraeli's Sibyle; or the Two Nations published Friedrich Engels's the Condition of the Working Class in England published Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son begins Serialization (volume publication 1848) Ten-hour Act limits women and...
Potato is one of the major crops in the world and is viewed as a key source to ensure food security of its fast-growing population. The crop can produce high yields with limited inputs, and supplies at the same time a good source of energy and health-promoting nutrients (Birch et al.2...
1860 the fungal disease of the potato caused by Phytophthora infetans or Late Blight caused the Irish potato famine in which one million people died of starvation and one and a half million people immigrated to North America because of the decimation of the potato crop caused by this fungal ...
The rise and fall of the Phytophthora infestans lineage that triggered the Irish potato famine. eLife 2013, 2, e00731. [PubMed] 173. Martin, M.D.; Zimmer, E.A.; Olsen, M.T.; Foote, A.D.; Gilbert, M.T.P.; Brush, G.S. Herbarium specimens reveal a historical shift in ...
Ireland on the eve of the Great Famine. Billy Gogan’s father has just died in a British prison, and Billy has been cast from cousin Seamus’s house and forced to make his way to America. Billy and his traveling companions, a destitute Irish peasant woman named Máire and her daughter ...