Saturday, March 24, 2018

In the Garden | It's spud season

In an ill-fated attempt to widen disease resistance, new potato varieties from Chile were introduced into Europe and North America in the 1800s, which may have inadvertently introduced, or heightened vulnerability to, the fungus Phytophthora infestans, the microbe responsible for the infamous Irish ...

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