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TEACHING
MATERIALS
Late Blight of Tomato
and Potato: A Lesson
in Plant Pathology

Late Blight
Simulation
Software
A plant disease
management game developed for teaching
by Cornell University.

The Irish Potato
Famine and the Birth
of Plant Pathology
An Illustrated chapter
from Plant Diseases: Their
Biology and Social Impact

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"Re-emergence of potato
and tomato late blight
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"Potato late blight in the Columbia Basin: An economic analysis of the 1995 epidemic." (49K)
articles from the
APS journal Plant Disease.
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LATE BLIGHT Simulation Software

(for Windows)

LATE BLIGHT simulation software version 3.1 is a plant disease management game developed by W. E. Fry, M. G. Milgroom, M. A. Doster, J. A. Bruhn, and R. I. Bruck at Cornell University. The simulation was developed for teaching purposes. The model closely follows the life cycle of Phytophthora infestans in relation to environmental and management variables. Gain an awareness of the difficulty faced by potato farmers in managing this disease.

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