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The early days of late blight
Paul R J Birch1, David E L Cooke
1is at the Division of Plant Sciences , University of Dundee , Dundee , United Kingdom and the James Hutton Institute , Dundee , United Kingdom paul.birch@hutton.ac.uk.
Elife
|June 25, 2013
Abstract
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Large-scale DNA sequencing of samples of foliage collected in the 19th century from plants infected with late blight has shown that the potato famines of the 1840s were triggered by a single clonal lineage of Phytophthora infestans, called HERB-1, which persisted for at least 50 years.
