Potato Blight, Potato Late Blight Agent, Potato Late Blight Fungus
Blight refers to the disease that affects a crop and the resulting starvation and problems is a famine.
At that time, the was a potato blight in the west of Ireland, which is referred to as the Great Famine. Prior to this, Irish population was at its highest. People left on ships to work on plantations, or escape the blight. Most left because of evictions. They mainly went to: US, Australia and England. Even when the blight was gone, people continued to leave, looking for jobs, or even family. Irish population has still not recovered from the Famine.
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The blight during the famine wasn't caused by a fungus, it was caused by the oomycete Phytophthora infestans.
Potato Blight
Chestnuts don't come from any of the states in the United States. There was a blight that attacked the chestnuts in the US in 1904. This blight wiped them out and left the remaining trees damaged and deformed.
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Yes, Potato blight is endemic in Ireland and Europe, but today a variety of types of potato are grown some of which are blight resistant and we also have chemical sprays that can kill the fungus. The trouble with the blight in the past was that there were no sprays and only one variety of potato was grown and when a blight evolved to attack this variety, it meant that ALL the Irish crop was hit and this lead to famine.
Blight means a plant disease. The plants became effected with blight. We treated the crops for blight.
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The blight on the crops devastated the village.His house is a blight against the landscape.
Blight - band - ended in 1982.
Blight - band - was created in 1982.
John Blight was born in 1913.
John Blight died in 1995.
Vicki Blight was born in 1981.