Thread: Late Blight -- Irish Potato Famine Fungus -- Attacks U.S. Northeast Gardens And Farms Hard
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Default Late Blight -- Irish Potato Famine Fungus -- Attacks U.S. Northeast Gardens And Farms Hard
ScienceDaily (July 5, 2009) — Home gardeners bewa This year, late
blight -- a destructive infectious disease that caused the Irish
potato famine in the 1840s -- is killing tomato and potato plants in
gardens and on commercial farms in the eastern United States. In
addition, basil downy mildew is affecting plants in the Northeast.

more http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0701163647.htm
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