Late blight is a plant disease that mainly attacks potatoes and tomatoes, although it can sometimes be found on other crops, weeds and ornamentals in the same botanical family (solanaceae). Late ...

This is a year to watch for late blight (LB) and early blight (EB) in potatoes and tomatoes and to a lesser degree in peppers and eggplants. For a disease to get established you need a susceptible ...

A group of researchers is turning to AI to try to combat potato blight, a disease that has led to around 20% of global potato crop losses amounting to financial losses of over $4.5 billion. The new AI ...

The scourge began in the late summer of 1845, with a spate of unseasonably cool weather and weeks of fog and rain leading into the fall. Lesions began to appear on the leaves of the potato plants, and ...

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“In all my years growing tomatoes, I’ve never seen a worse year,” gardeners tell me every so often. I hope this isn’t your worst year. Either way, there are reasons why it’s been tough. Disease or ...

Home gardeners beware: 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 ...

Dear Carol: I read your column about tomato late blight a few weeks ago and would like to ask a couple more questions about the blight. I read that the late blight does not remain in the soil, but ...

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cornell University potato breeders are donating a disease-resistant potato to Russia in an effort to help combat aggressive strains of potato late blight that are threatening to ...