Global historic pandemics caused by the FAM-1 genotype of Phytophthora infestans on six continents

Abstract The FAM-1 genotype of Phytophthora infestans caused late blight in the 1840s in the US and Europe and was responsible for the Irish famine. We sampled 140 herbarium specimens collected between 1845 and 1991 from six continents and used 12-plex microsatellite genotyping (SSR) to identify FAM...

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Main Authors: Amanda C. Saville, Jean B. Ristaino
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/1e5d7777c1e94b4cace3f96f69a87b60
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