Researcher identifies Irish potato famine pathogen
In June 2001, North Carolina State University plant pathologist Jean Beagle Ristaino shocked the scientific world when she published a paper in the journal that called into question the then-prevailing theories about the strain of pathogen and its place of origin that caused the Irish potato famine in the 1840s....... Using DNA fingerprinting analysis of 150-year-old leaves evidence that had...DNA evidence calls Irish potato famine theory into question
For years, scientists thought they knew which strain of late blight caused the great Irish potato famine of the 1840s, a catastrophic crop failure that killed more than 1 million people, forced another 2 million to immigrate to America and other countries, and changed the course of European and American history. . . It turns out they were wrong. . . , finds that the strain of the pathogen blam...UNC-CH researchers to comb N.C. mountains for iron problem chiefly affecting Scots, Irish
. CHAPEL HILL – Low-income people in western North Carolina will be tested over the next two years for hemochromatosis, the most common genetic illness in North America, through a new University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill public service and research effort. . . Although the condition – a deficiency in the way the body processes iron – appears in all ethnic groups, it is mos...Late Blight Battle Goes Online, Marking 150 Year Struggle Since Irish Potato Famine
St. Paul, MN (March 16, 1998) -- It started with the Irish Potato Famine, and...now after 150 years, plant pathologists remain persistent in their struggle to...find solutions to the newest strains of the aggressive late blight fungus...(Phytophthora infestans). The latest battle against this devastating fungus,...however, isn't taking place in a lab or out in a potato field, instead the...Ameri...