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Innovative Research Could Save Indian Potato Farmers Hundreds of Millions of Dollars Each Year

October 8, 2009 No comments yet

Potato blight is a disease caused by a fungus which targets potatoes both in the field and in storage.  It can destroy an entire crop of potatoes within one or two weeks, and it can survive year after year in the tubers of infected potatoes, which release millions of new spores when the next rainy



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