🍅 Major breakthrough in crop disease resistance! Dr. Zhou Shaoqun's team at CAAS-SZAIGR has decoded the early infection mechanisms of late blight — one of the world's most devastating crop diseases costing $10B+/year in losses.

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#PlantScience #LateBlight #CRISPR

Plants counter with NLRs R2 & Rpi-mcq1, which guard both the pH regulator (StATP6V1C1) and its downstream target — a dual-layer decoy surveillance system.
A new arms race battlefield: intracellular pH homeostasis.
#PlantImmunity #Oomycete #LateBlight #PlantPathology

Plasma Activated Water: Implication as Fungicide, Growth and Yield Stimulator of Potato (Solanum Tuberosum L.)

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#PlasmaAgricultureTechnology #LateBlight #SustainableCropProtection

Potato harvesting in Scotland. Tractor and trailer alongside self-propelled Grimme harvester

It's that #potato harvest time of year again. Wishing the UK industry good yields and, more importantly, decent prices. At least the #lateblight pressure has been generally low in 2025.

Author's image of peeled potato tuber showing early infection of Phytophthora infestans, the cause of potato late blight. Tracking of mycelial progress through tuber visible by potato resistance reaction.

Pleased to publish a @phytopathology.bsky.social paper with West Bengal State University demonstrating seed tubers as source of #lateblight #phytophthora epidemics in the Indian plains.
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Late blight field resistance in potatoes carrying Solanum americanum resistance genes (Rpi-amr3 and Rpi-amr1) Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is an important global crop, but its production is severely impacted by late blight, caused by the pathogen Phytophthora infestans. The economic burden of this disease...

Transgenic #potatoes that are resistant to #lateblight can be a #sustainable alternative to chemical control, promoting #foodsecurity & environment-friendly agriculture: doi.org/10.1080/2164... #GMO #plantbreeding

image showing certificate for a top cited article on potato late blight and resistance the fungicide mandipropamid

Pleased to see #Phytophthora #lateblight work from @hutton.ac.uk & @au.dk is getting attention in @wiley.com Plant Pathology #TopCitedArticle
This problematic EU43 clonal lineage needs careful management. #Euroblight results for 2024 coming soon

The Irish potato famine originated in South America Late blight of potato. Credit: I.Sáček, senior (CC0 1.0) Scientists might have been looking in the wrong place to find the original source of potato blight, which could prevent discovery of ways to...

The Irish potato famine originated in South America #Science #Biology #Botany #PotatoBlight #LateBlight #PlantPathology #Agriculture