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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, Medical News Today, 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.