Genome of Irish potato famine pathogen decoded

Wednesday, September 9, 2009 - 14:03 in Biology & Nature

A large international research team has decoded the genome of the notorious organism that triggered the Irish potato famine in the mid-19th century and now threatens this season's tomato and potato crops across much of the US.

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