Pathogen that caused Irish potato famine even more virulent now, a potential threat to global food security in the developing world

Pathogen that caused Irish potato famine even more virulent now, a potential threat to global food security in the developing world, mediLexicon, July 23, 2013.
The plant pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine in the 1840s lives on today with a different genetic blueprint and an even larger arsenal of weaponry to harm and kill plants. Jean Ristaino, plant pathology, featured.