With the discovery of late blight in tomatoes and potatoes in parts of Wisconsin, gardeners are wondering whether ripening tomatoes or freshly harvested potatoes are safe for eating or preserving.

A new aggressive potato blight strain was detected in Wales and eastern Scotland earlier this year. The strain, identified as EU 46, can withstand certain fungicides, making it harder to control. It ...

A group of researchers is turning to AI to try to combat potato blight, a disease that has led to around 20% of global potato crop losses amounting to financial losses of over $4.5 billion. The new AI ...

Late blight control in potatoes is becoming an increasingly complex balancing act, as growers face a shrinking fungicide armoury and an evolving, aggressive pathogen ...

US-based scientists have compiled the first-ever maps detailing how potato blight first hit North America in the mid-19th century before crossing the Atlantic Ocean and causing the Great Hunger in ...