The rise and fall of the Phytophthora infestans lineage that triggered the Irish potato famine

K Yoshida, VJ Schuenemann, LM Cano, M Pais… - Elife, 2013 - elifesciences.org
Phytophthora infestans, the cause of potato late blight, is infamous for having triggered the
Irish Great Famine in the 1840s. Until the late 1970s, P. infestans diversity outside of its
Mexican center of origin was low, and one scenario held that a single strain, US-1, had
dominated the global population for 150 years; this was later challenged based on DNA
analysis of historical herbarium specimens. We have compared the genomes of 11
herbarium and 15 modern strains. We conclude that the 19th century epidemic was caused …

The rise and fall of the Phytophthora infestans lineage that triggered the Irish potato famine

Y Kentaro, VJ Schuenemann, LM Cano, M Pais… - eLife, 2013 - search.proquest.com
Phytophthora infestans, the cause of potato late blight, is infamous for having triggered the
Irish Great Famine in the 1840s. Until the late 1970s, P. infestans diversity outside of its
Mexican center of origin was low, and one scenario held that a single strain, US-1, had
dominated the global population for 150 years; this was later challenged based on DNA
analysis of historical herbarium specimens. We have compared the genomes of 11
herbarium and 15 modern strains. We conclude that the 19th century epidemic was caused …
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