http://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. An international team of scientists reveals that a unique strain of potato blight they call HERB-1 triggered the Irish potato famine of the mid-19th century. http://phys.org/news288291675.html Biology Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:02 EST news288291675 Researchers led by Professor Bruce Fitt, now at the University of Hertfordshire, have used modern DNA techniques on late nineteenth-century potatoes to show how the potato blight may have survived between cropping seasons after the Irish potato famine of the 1840s. http://phys.org/news267297904.html Biology Wed, 19 Sep 2012 18:25:12 EST news267297904 (Phys.org)—As the annual potato harvest begins, Wisconsin farmers continue to check their fields for late blight, the ferocious plant disease that caused the 1848 Irish potato famine and fueled massive emigration from Ireland. http://phys.org/news265885330.html Biology Mon, 03 Sep 2012 10:02:19 EST news265885330 Wild tomatoes could help researchers design potatoes resistant to the fungus that caused the Irish potato famine and still threatens potato crops around the globe, said a Colorado State University biologist who has received a $5.8 million National Science Foundation grant for the research. http://phys.org/news249122308.html Biology Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:38:34 EST news249122308 (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in Aberdeen have made a discovery which could ultimately help to develop a control for a major cause of infection in farmed fish. http://phys.org/news246706862.html Biology Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:41:13 EST news246706862 (Medical Xpress) -- Researchers from the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech and a team of international colleagues have identified the functions of a large family of virulence proteins used by a dangerous group of plant pathogens that includes the soybean pathogen Phytophthora sojae and the Irish potato famine pathogen, Phytophthora infestans. http://phys.org/news233392753.html Biology Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:20:01 EST news233392753 (PhysOrg.com) -- A large international research team has decoded the genome of the notorious organism that triggered the Irish potato famine in the mid-19th century and now threatens this season's tomato and potato crops across much of the US. http://phys.org/news171720802.html Biology Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:13:51 EST news171720802