Significant shares of harvests are lost to pests and diseases, therefore, minimizing these
losses could solve part of the supply constraints to feed the world. Cisgenesis is defined as …

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 …

To gain a detailed understanding of how plant microbes evolve and adapt to hosts,
pesticides, and other factors, knowledge of the population dynamics and evolutionary history …

Considered responsible for one million deaths in Ireland and widespread famine in the
European continent during the 1840s, late blight, caused by Phytophthora infestans …

Natural isolates of the potato and tomato pathogen Phytophthora infestans exhibit
substantial variation in virulence, chemical sensitivity, ploidy, and other traits. A chromosome …

The plant kingdom represents a prominent biodiversity island for microbes that associate
with the below-or aboveground organs of vegetal species. Both the root and the leaf …

Essentially all plant species exhibit heritable genetic variation for resistance to a variety of
plant diseases caused by fungi, bacteria, oomycetes or viruses. Disease losses in crop …

Phytophthora infestans is the causal organism of potato late blight, the most important
disease in potato, the second most important arable crop in Europe. The P. infestans …

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 …

Late blight, caused by Phytophthora infestans, has emerged as the most destructive disease
of potato and tomato in South India since 2008. One hundred and fifty‐seven isolates of …