What type of fungus is it that may put tomatoes at risk in Ohio?
Potato famine disease striking home gardens in U.S. By Julie Steenhuysen Julie Steenhuysen Fri Jul 10, 5:22 pm ET CHICAGO (Reuters) – Late blight, which caused the Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s and 1850s, is killing potato and tomato plants in home gardens from Maine to Ohio and threatening commercial and organic farms, U.S. plant scientists said on Friday. “Late blight has never occurred this early and this widespread in the United States,” said Meg McGrath, a plant pathologist at Cornell University’s extension center in Riverhead, New York. She said the fungal disease, spread by spores carried in the air, has made its way into the garden centers of large retail chains in the Northeastern United States. “Wal-mart, Home Depot, Sears, Kmart and Lowe’s are some of the stores the plants have been seen in,” McGrath said in a telephone interview. The disease, known officially as Phytophthora infestans, causes large mold-ringe
