Late blight was also the cause of the potato famine in Ireland in the middle of the eighteen hundreds.

VOA: special.2009.11.03

The biodiversity has shrunk for various reasons of profitability and as a consequence of that things like corn crops, and the orange crops in Florida are particularly susceptible to certain environmental conditions, certain pests, and certain types of blight.

生物多样性的减少源自利益的驱动,和玉米一样,佛罗里达的柑橘作物很容易受到,一定环境条件的影响,还有虫害和枯萎病

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We told you last week about a newly completed genetic map of the organism that causes late blight.

VOA: special.2009.10.27

In a separate development, another team reported completing a genome of the organism responsible for late blight.

VOA: special.2009.10.20

Picking beans from wet plants can spread bean bacterial blight, a disease that damages the plants.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

We separated and yet managed to come back together." David Blight is a historian at Yale University in Connecticut and an expert on the Civil War.

VOA: special.2011.04.09

Separately,another team reported completing a genome of the organism responsible for late blight.

VOA: special.2009.11.03

He says it is possible to grow potatoes that resist late blight.

VOA: special.2009.10.27

He highlights the example of potato blight, a common pest that can destroy crops.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

to relieve and remove the blight of hunger, poverty and disease;

VOA: standard.2010.07.06