Phytophthora infestans has been a named pathogen for well over 150 years and yet it
continues to “emerge”, with thousands of articles published each year on it and the late blight …

Elevated cardiovascular risk including stroke, heart failure, and heart attack is present even
after normalization of blood pressure in patients with hypertension. Underlying immune cell …

Dramatic changes occurred within populations of Phytophthora infestans in the United States
and Canada from 1994 through 1996. Occurrence of the US-8 genotype, detected rarely …

In order to develop a diagnostic tool to identify phytoplasmas and classify them according to
their phylogenetic group, we took advantage of the sequence diversity of the 16S-23S …

Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) are known in various cropping systems to
increase plant growth and vigor, as well as induce resistance to pathogens and pests. A …

Late blight of potato, caused by the oomycete pathogen Phytophthora infestans, is a devastating
disease that can cause the rapid death of plants. To investigate the molecular basis of …

The cultivated potato (Solanum tuberosum) shares similar biology with other members of the
Solanaceae, yet has features unique within the family, such as modified stems (stolons) that …

The tomato late blight pandemic of 2009 made late blight into a household term in much of
the eastern United States. Many home gardeners and many organic producers lost most if not …

The genomic DNA fingerprinting technique known as repetitive-sequence-based polymerase
chain reaction (rep-PCR) was evaluated as a tool to differentiate subspecies of Clavibacter …

Under controlled field conditions, a Solanum backcross population segregated for resistance
to Phytophthora infestans. The population (`BCT') had been derived previously by crossing …