How did Phytophthora infestans change the world Discuss sho

. How did Phytophthora infestans change the world? Discuss should focus on the biological factors that contributed to the famine.

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Phytophthora infestant is the cause of late blight of potato.Phytophthera infestans which is an oomycetes . It was found that HERB- 1 strain caused famine. This fungus like organism devastated potato crop and lead to the famine in Ireland. Irish potato famine causes mass starvation and femine.Thousands of people died of starvation as potato was the main food of that place.As this fungus destroyed the crop of potato people suffered shortage of food supply and eventually died of starvation in that famine.