See also: Potato blight: What UK farmers can learn from Europe How it reached the UK is unclear, although wind-blown spores are one possible explanation, according to Dr David Cooke, a plant ...

The researchers attribute their findings to bottleneck effects. Potatoes were imported ... The most famous example is the potato late blight outbreak of the 1840s, which caused harvests to ...

He said that with the increasing population and ravaging climate change effects in the East ... involves the transfer of a biotech potato resistant to late blight. The partnership, he added ...