Phytophthora infestans has been a named pathogen for well over 150 years and yet it
continues to “emerge”, with thousands of articles published each year on it and the late …

Phytophthora infestans remains a problem to production agriculture. Historically there have
been many controversies concerning its biology and pathogenicity, some of which remain …

Plant Disease/January 2012 5 potato growing areas outside Mexico, suggesting that sexual
reproduction did not play a significant role in the disease cycle. Researchers have observed …

The tomato late blight pandemic of 2009 made late blight into a household term in much of
the eastern United States. Many home gardeners and many organic producers lost most if …

Phytophthora infestans (Mont.) de Bary caused the 19th century Irish Potato Famine. We
assessed the genealogical history of P. infestans using sequences from portions of two …

This book contains 32 chapters providing illuminating insights into the molecular details of
cell-type specification, mating type switching, pheromone perception and signalling, and …

Late blight caused by Phytophthora infestans is an economically important disease of potato
and tomato worldwide. In Canada, an increase in late blight incidence and severity …

Competition among pathogen strains for limited host resources can have a profound effect
on pathogen evolution. A better understanding of the principles and consequences of …

New tools have revealed that migrations of Phytophthora infestans have been a dominant
feature of the population biology of this pathogen for the past 50 years, and maybe for the …

Isolates of Phytophthora infestans (n= 178) were collected in 2002 to 2009 from the eastern
United States, Midwestern United States, and eastern Canada. Multilocus genotypes were …