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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Late blight was confirmed this week on several tomato samples from Tippecanoe County in west-central Indiana, leading the Purdue University Plant and Pest Diagnostic Laboratory ...
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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.
Researchers are developing a new app which will use artificial intelligence to warn farmers of a fungal disease which can ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Meg McGrath, a plant pathologist at Cornell University’s Long Island Horticulture Research and Extension Center in Riverhead, personally confirmed the disease on Saturday. Late blight is caused ...
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 ...
The analysis documents late blight disease on potatoes in five states -- New York, Delaware, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Pennsylvania -- before it spread to the rest of the northeastern U.S. and ...