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
Researchers believe that in the 1840s a strain of the pathogen Phytophthora infestans, which causes potato blight, followed trade routes from Mexico to Belgium, where it began damaging crops.
From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2022
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 potato blight is always lying in wait, till the potato plants are deteriorated by a long spell of rain and damp; it is only then that it can effect its fell purpose.
From John the Baptist by Meyer, F. B. (Frederick Brotherton)
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