Many anamorphic fungi are of great economic importance, some causing serious diseases of plants—anthracnose, botrytis blight, and wilt and of animals, including humans aspergillosis, candidiasis, and ringworm.
Iran is an animal blighted by the sin of national pride, but it rarely bites unless it has been kicked first.
Poor environmental stewardship, outsourcing, animal cruelty, destroying Main Street blight its record and reputation.
Parasites are responsible for a wide variety of infectious diseases in human as well as in domestic and wild animals, causing an enormous health and economical blight.
Wasteland sites (or brownfields) are often seen a blight on the landscape, but once colonised by plants and animals, they may be of value for the enjoyment of nature by local residents.
I read Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals and said, "Yes, factory farming is a terrible blight on our world!" I read Michael Pollan's Omnivore's Dilemma and agreed with the book's premise that we should eat mostly plants.
Well known are the notorious late blight pathogen Phytophthora infestans that infects both tomato and potato and the animal pathogen Saprolegnia parasitica that causes saprolegniasis, for example, in salmon.
It's a world where uncoupled persons are turned into animals to spare them further social humiliation, and to spare society the unsightly blight of single folk.
Whether being mistaken for food by animals, flooding low-lying areas by clogging drainage systems, or simply causing significant aesthetic blight, plastics have attracted increasing attention as a large-scale pollutant.
Plant, animal, and fungal promoters were shown to work poorly in the potato late blight pathogen Phytophthora infestans, which suggested divergence of the transcriptional apparatus of oomycetes [ 11].
