It was at the tail end of last season that monitoring by Fight Against Blight (FAB) confirmed the EU46 strain had been found ...

Tomato blight is caused by a fungus-like organism which affects leaves and fruit in warm, wet weather. The Royal ...

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Potatoes are a staple food for over 1.3 billion people. But despite their importance for global food security, breeding ...

April's climate, characterised by warm temperatures and frequent rainfall, fosters the ideal environment for a highly destructive disease known as blight. This propagates through fungal spores ...

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 ...