potato blight
Noun
Meaning
a blight of potatoes
Source: WordNetSynonyms
late blight
potato disease
potato mildew
potato mold
potato murrain
Phytophthora infestans
potato fungus
late tomato blight
potato blight disease
potato decay
potato wilt
potato blight wilt
late potato blight
phytophthora infestans disease
phytophthora infestans epidemic
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Much as Miles Joseph Berkeley (1803–1889) had insisted in 1841 that the fungus found in potato blight was the cause of the disease, de Bary declared that the rust and smut fungi were the causes of the pathological changes in diseased plants.
The Almighty, indeed, sent the potato blight, but the English created the famine.sfn Still other critics saw reflected in the government's response its attitude to the so-called "Irish Question".