#  A Painfully Interesting Subject 

 





October 17, 2016

 

 

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**Don Pfister** and Jean Beagle Ristaino's [latest article in BioScience](http://bioscience.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/10/07/biosci.biw114.short?rss=1), *"What a Painfully Interesting Subject": Charles Darwin's Studies of Potato Late Blight*, looks closely at the pathogen, *Phytophthora infestans.* The pathogen, responsible for the 1845 Ireland famine, is still wreaking havoc on potatoes and tomatoes in the United States and many areas of the world and is considered a threat to global food security. (image courtesy United Soybean Board, <https://www.flickr.com/photos/unitedsoybean/>)



 

 

 



 

 

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