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Potato late blight caused by the oomycete Phytophthora infestans (Mont.) de Bary may be the best known, longest studied and still among the most destructive of all plant diseases. Devastation caused by this plant pathogen in the late 1840s in Europe led to food shortages throughout Europe and gave rise to the Irish potato famine. The enormity of the famine initiated by this plant disease stimulated much investigation on plant diseases and led to the development of plant pathology as a distinct discipline. However, the impact of these studies had a much broader impact. Inoculation experiments by de Bary provided evidence for the causal role of this pathogen in the disease and contributed to the later acceptance of Pasteur’s more general germ theory of disease.
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Fry, W.E., Mizubuti, E.S. (1998). Potato late blight. In: Jones, D.G. (eds) The Epidemiology of Plant Diseases. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3302-1_18
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