What is the name of the bacteria which causes potato bright?
The disease is Potato blight and NOT Potato bright == Phytophthora infestans is a fungus of oomycete group that causes the serious potato disease known as late blight or potato blight. (Early blight, caused by Alternaria solani, is also often called ‘potato blight’). It was a major culprit in the 1845 Irish and 1846 Highland potato famines. The organism can also infect tomatoes and some other members of the Solanaceae. It is currently being remedied by genetic engineering, taking a resistance gene from the plant Solanum bulbocastanum and introducing it into the genome of cultivated varieties of the potato.
