Prof. Vincent Bulone´s and PhD-student Johanna Fugelstad´s research about potatoe mold in the News

Leaf blight and brown rot in potatoes and tomatoes cause global losses to the equivalent of SEK 48 billion every year. But now the fight to vanquish this ancient problem has taken a substantial step in the right direction. International research work on potato mould has just been published in the scientific journal Nature. Prof. Vincent Bulone and PhD-student Johanna Fugelstad, Division of Glycoscience at KTH, have been part of the work, which is based on genome sequence and analysis of the Irish potato famine pathogen Phytophthora infestans.

Read more in Nature, Ny Teknik, Jordbruksaktuellt and KTH.se (English) (Swedish)