UF/IFAS Finding Could Help Farmers Stop Potato, Tomato Disease
Tuesday, June 3, 2014 - 10:30
in Biology & Nature
A University of Florida scientist has pinpointed Mexico as the origin of the pathogen that caused the 1840s Irish Potato Famine, a finding that may help researchers solve the $6 billion-a-year disease that continues to evolve and torment potato and tomato growers around the world.