Late blight was found on potatoes and tomatoes in Wyoming and Cattaraugus counties recently according to the Cornell ...

Blight and other fungal diseases are a common enemy in the garden. This week's column includes tips for addressing — and not spreading — the problem.

Since late blight is a water loving disease, how your grow your tomatoes matters. Lina suggests planting rows east-west so the prevailing westerly wind can blow through and dry out the tomato vines.

Compare your plants to these photos of late blight disease to help identify the pathogen on your tomato and potato plants. If you suspect your plants are infected, here's what you should do.

If hasn’t been determined if the late blight around this year is the common strain or a more virulent form of the disease. Either way, it would be wise to do a thorough cleaning in the vegetable ...

Because there are many similar diseases on tomato leaves, identification of late blight requires examination by microscope, they said. Samples can be submitted for analysis to Plant and Pest ...

Late blight is a common disease of plants such as tomatoes and potatoes, capable of wiping out entire crops on commercial-scale fields. Caused by a fungus-like pathogen, it first appears as black ...

Question: Last year, my tomatoes died from the blight disease going around. Is it still in my soil, and is there something I should do to prevent it this year?

Can plant diseases be tracked through analyzing past reports? This is what a recent study published in Scientific Reports hopes to address as a team of researchers at North Carolina State University ...

A strain of this fungal disease caused the 1845-51 potato blight in Ireland. Late blight is capable of destroying the tomato and potato crops in this region for the 2010 growing season, which ...

These two potatoes are infected with late blight disease. Scientists have unraveled the genome of the parasite that sparked the Irish potato famine of the 1840s, revealing why it was such a killer ...

New strains of the devastating fungus-like disease called Phytopthora infestans, or late blight, are far more aggressive than their ancestors that triggered the Irish potato famine of the 1840s.