Scientists traced the Irish Potato Famine pathogen, Phytophthora infestans, to the Andes and discovered it belongs to a much ...

What these nuns did — what nuns have been doing for more than a thousand years — is show those alone and suffering that Jesus ...

In June 2001, North Carolina State University plant pathologist Jean Beagle Ristaino shocked the scientific world when she published a paper in the journal Nature that called into question the ...

As we celebrate Irish culture this week on St. Patrick’s Day, we also should remember Ireland’s darkest moment. Famine struck Ireland in the 1840s, leading to mass starvation. Disease had ruined the ...

A microscopic "plant destroyer" not only helped trigger one of the deadliest famines in modern history but also reshaped ...

A large international research team has decoded the genome of the notorious organism that triggered the Irish potato famine in the mid-19th century and now threatens this season's tomato and potato ...

As we celebrate Irish culture on Saint Patrick's Day, we should also remember their darkest moment. Famine struck Ireland in the 1840's leading to mass starvation. Disease had ruined the potato crop ...

Researchers tracking the evolution of different strains of the plant pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine in the 1840s show that the historic lineage called FAM-1 was found in nearly ...