Cornell-Eastern Europe-Mexico International Collaborative Project in Potato Late Blight Control (CEEM)

World blight mapCEEM group (Cornell)Dr. Dejong and potatoes (Cornell)field day in Poland IHAR potatoes (Poland)Mexico collaborators


The History of Potato Late Blight

Listed below are some resources to learn more about potato Late Blight, the history of the Irish potato famine, and past and present efforts to overcome the effects of potato Late Blight.


Views of the Famine complied by Steve Taylor at Vassar includes many articles and pictures of the Irish potato famine.

Cornell University, Fry Lab, Ithaca, New York

International Cooperative Program for Potato Late Blight (PICTIPAPA), Toluca, Mexico

N.I.Vavilov Research Institute of Plant Industry (VIR), Russia

Plant Breeding Accilmatization Institute, (IHAR), Poland

International Potato Center (CIP), Peru

University of Wisconsin includes research on potatogermplasm.

Selected Publications:

Daly, D. C. The Leaf that launched a thousand ships. Natural History. Jan. 1996. V. 105 (1).

Dorrance, A. E., Inglis, D. A., Derie, M. L., Brown, C. R., Goodwin, Fry, W. E. F., and Deahl, K. L. 1999.Characterization of Phytophthora infestans Populations in Western Washington. Plant Disease. 83:423-428

.Forbes, G. A., Goodwin, S. B., Drenth, A., Oyarzun, P., Ordonez, M. E., and Fry, W. E. 1998. A Global Marker Database for Phytophthora infestans. Plant Disease. 82:811-818.

Fry, William E., Goodwin, S.B. Resurgence of the Irish potato famine fungus. BioScience. June 1997. V.47 (6), p. 363-371.Fry, W. E. 1998. Late Blight of Potatoes and Tomatoes. Vegetable Crops. Fact Sheet. Page 726. 20.

Cornell Cooperative Extension.Goodwin, S. B., Cohen, B. A., Fry, William E. Panglobal distribution of a single clonal lineage of the Irish potato famine fungus.
National Academy of Sciences. Nov. 22, 1994 V. 91 (24).

Goodwin, S. B., Smart, C. D., Sandrock, R. W., Deahl, K. L., Punja, Z. K., and Fry, W. E. 1998.Genetic Change Within Populations of Phytophthora infestans in the United States and Canada during 1994 to 1996: Role of Migration and Recombination. Phytopathology. 88:939-949.

Mackin, J. 1999. Potato Blight Raises Fears of Famine. Cornell Focus. 7:12-17

Weigley, E. S. The Great Hunger: Nutrition and the potato famine. Topics in Clinical Nutrition. Sept. 1998 V.13 (4) p. 58-63.