Blight map reveals evolution of potato disease in Europe in 2018

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“Three emerging clones increased their combined frequency from 10% in 2016 to 36% of the population in 2018”

An international consortium including the James Hutton Institute which tracks the European spatial distribution of Phytophthora infestans, the plant pathogen responsible for potato late blight, has updated the distribution of the pathogen by adding new data that visualises the distribution and diversity of dominant clones in the 2018 crop.

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