A potato specimen from the Kew Garden herbarium, collected in 1847, during the height of the Irish famine. The legend reads “Botrytis infestans”, because it was not known yet that Phytophthora does not belong to the mildew causing Botrytis fungi.
©Marco Thines
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Suggested paths of migration and diversification of P. infestans lineages HERB-1 and US-1.
©Yoshida et al.
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“Whodunnit” of Irish potato famine solved

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