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It has been known that Phytophthora infestans, a fungus-like organism that devastated potato crops, led to the famine in Ireland.
But the precise strain of the pathogen that caused the devastating famine from 1845 to 1852 was a mystery until 2013, when the strain of potato blight was christened HERB-1.
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