The disease that has been worrying everyone most right now is potato blight.
During his trip, Douglass witnessed the fallout of a terrible potato blight that was bringing famine to the land.
The crisis reached a climax with the famine of 1844 46, when poor grain harvests coincided with a potato blight.
Last month potato growers were blamed for worsening an outbreak of potato blight by failing to dispose of infected potatoes.
The potato blight had wiped out the monoculture, devastating their society and branding the United Kingdom, as incompetent and callous.
Fungi pathogens that can be weaponized for use against crops to cause such diseases as rice blast, cereal rust, wheat smut, and potato blight.
Ireland was dependent on the potato for sustenance, and "potato blight" — the plant disease — "slithered" (in Kelly's word) through the Irish landscape in the mid-40s.
"The one I get upset about is Bordeaux mix, which is an organic treatment for potato blight and contains copper," he said.
I was delighted to join in, not least because there was a chance I'd learn what to do about my potato blight.
In the spring of 1847, at the height of the potato blight, Mahon tried to rid his property of nearly 1,000 destitute tenants.
Most of the so-called 'greenshifters' are more bothered about potato blight and blow fly than owning the idyllic country cottage with clematis over the door.
