April 06, 2011

Researcher receives grant to study potato and tomato disease

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Late blight, caused by a fungus-like microbe, is a plant disease that mainly attacks potatoes and tomatoes, is difficult and economically challenging to eradicate, and was largely responsible for the Irish potato famine of the mid-19th century. University of California Riverside Newsroom

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