Scientists in Sweden have taken an important step toward fighting potato late blight, a plant disease that once triggered a historic famine in Ireland and now threatens to spread globally due to ...

The devastating Irish potato famine triggered an "arms race" between plants and pathogens, reveals new research. A ground-breaking examination of the genetic material found in historic potato leaves ...

August in Charleston witnesses the loveliest of migrations. Like the swallows of Capistrano or the butterflies of Mexico, students flock back to the city in youthful, idealistic, hedonistic, colorful ...

North Carolina State University researchers continue to track the evolution of different strains of the plant pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine in the 1840s, which set down roots in the ...

People in Ireland are paying it forward, inspired by an act of generosity committed more than 170 years ago. In 1847, the Choctaw people collected $170 to send to people in Ireland who were starving ...

Research headed up by the University of Edinburgh carried out scientific analysis of dental calculus—plaque build-up— on the teeth of 42 victims. The analysis revealed that the diet during the Irish ...

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