Late blight hits early in Northeast
Sunday, July 5, 2009 - 00:21
in Earth & Climate
ITHACA, N.Y., July 5 (UPI) -- The disease blamed for the Irish potato famine in the 1840s is infecting tomato and potato plants in the eastern United States, agricultural officials said.
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