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Hello everyone.
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Today we are going to discuss on irish potato fermine, which is a severe fomime that happened in the mid -19th century ireland.
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It is also called a great fermine and this fermine happened as a cause of destruction of potato plants because of a disease called late blight.
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This late blight would destroy the entire plant from leads to roots.
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So in 1845, a water bowl strain called phytostra infestance, a fungi caused this late plight.
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When the plant got infected with this organism, they developed lesions on their leaves and finally resulted in the rotting of the tubers, which is the edible part of the plant, the potato.
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So this, before discussing on how the phytofthera infestants causes infection on the plant, let us discuss the factors which are well.
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Responsible for the irish potato fermine.
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In ireland, farmers found it difficult to produce cereals in the 18th century.
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Potato which easily grew up in their soil ease their job and also proved nutritious.
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So very soon potato became the staple food in the 18th century.
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By 1840s, half of the otherland population chiefly the poor ones became dependent on the potato for their diet.
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And the heavy reliance on two or one or two yielding types of potato greatly reduced the genetic variety...