Ireland

“In 1845, Phytophthora infestans destroyed the potato crop”

Ristaino J.B., Anderson P.K., Bebber D.P., Brauman K.A., Cunniffe N.J., Fedoroff N.V., Finegold C., Garrett K.A., Gilligan C.A., Jones C.M., Martin M.D., MacDonald G.K., Neenan P., Records A., Schmale D.G., Tateosian L., Wei Q. (2021) · The persistent threat of emerging plant disease pandemics to global food security · p. 2 #6495949

“1840s Irish potato famine caused by the oomycete Phytophthora infestans”

Bebber D. P., Ramotowski M. A. T., Gurr S. J. (2013) · p. 1 #6495553

“Phytophthora infestans destroyed the potato crop”

Ristaino J.B., Anderson P.K., Bebber D.P., Brauman K.A., Cunniffe N.J., Fedoroff N.V., Finegold C., Garrett K.A., Gilligan C.A., Jones C.M., Martin M.D., MacDonald G.K., Neenan P., Records A., Schmale D.G., Tateosian L., Wei Q. (2021) · The persistent threat of emerging plant disease pandemics to global food security · p. 2 #6495308

“the Irish potato blight was the largest human tragedy ever caused by agriculture”

Vandermeer J.H. (2009) · The Ecology of Agroecosystems · p. 211 #6494022

“potato fields in northern Europe and in Ireland became masses of blighted and rotting vegetation”

Unknown (Unknown) · History of Plant Pathology and Early Significant Plant Diseases (Chapter 1 Introduction) · p. 19 #6493118

“late blight fungus Phytophthora infestans became established, epidemic proportions”

Rubatzky V.E., Yamaguchi M. (1997) · World Vegetables: Principles, Production, and Nutritive Values (2nd edition) · p. 106 #6492280

“Potatoes rotted in the fields and the storehouses”

Vandermeer J.H. (2011) · The Ecology of Agroecosystems · p. 5 #6492124

“potato late-blight epidemic and subsequent famine in Ireland in the mid-19th century”

Altieri M.A., Farrell J.G., Hecht S.B., Liebman M., Magdoff F., Murphy B., Norgaard R.B., Sikor T.O. (1995) · Agroecology: The Science of Sustainable Agriculture · p. 61 #6492093