Potato Blight Ireland. Scientists have finally figured out exactly what strain of potato blight led to the deaths of more than a million people in ireland during the great famine of the mid. Although scientists have known that a funguslike organism caused the potato blight that triggered the great famine in ireland in the 1840s, they didn't know which strain was the culprit.
Scientists have finally figured out exactly what strain of potato blight led to the deaths of more than a million people in ireland during the great famine of the mid. The failure of essentially the entire potato crop for several years led to.