The source of the pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine has finally been identified. Researchers from North Carolina State University have pinpointed the Andes Mountains in South America as ...
Even before the potato blight, there was a degree of hunger among the Irish rural underclass that ... clinging to bogs and the sides of stony mountains. De Beaumont, noting that these laboring ...
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Study points to South America—not Mexico—as birthplace of Irish potato famine pathogenNorth Carolina State University researchers firmly point the finger at the South American Andes Mountains as the place where the Irish potato famine pathogen, Phtytophthora infestans, originated.
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