potato blight
Britishnoun
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Multiple factors caused the famine, including the potato blight that destroyed the main source of food, and the political and socioeconomic circumstances of British colonial rule.
From BBC • May 22, 2026
Even 175 years after Ireland's devastating famine caused by an introduced potato blight, we're still struggling to combat these diseases.
From Salon • May 31, 2023
Von Hippel begins with efforts to tackle the causes of potato blight, which triggered the Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s, and vector-borne diseases such as malaria, yellow fever and typhus.
From Nature • Aug. 30, 2020
One species Phytophthora infestans causes the potato blight, which led to the Irish potato famine.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
The cause of potato blight and the methods of combating it cannot be learned from the operation of planting and cultivating potatoes.
From The Young Farmer: Some Things He Should Know by Hunt, Thomas Forsyth
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