国际农业研究顾问组主席伊斯尔.塞拉盖尔丁说,鉴于导致马铃薯晚疫病的真菌卷土重来,该组下属的利马国际马铃薯中心已培育出60种能够抵抗这种真菌的马铃薯新品种。 据《华盛顿邮报》报道,晚疫病真菌在19世纪40年代曾使爱尔兰马铃薯歉收,引发大面积饥荒,导致100万人死亡、大批人逃往北美。几个月以前,科学家发出警告说,这种真菌已开始卷土重来,它能抵抗大多数的杀虫剂,可能使世界马铃薯产量减少百分之十五。目前除澳大利亚外,其它各大洲的马铃薯都受到晚疫 Isla Serguerdin, chairman of the International Agricultural Research Advisory Group, said the group’s Lima International Potato Center has produced 60 new varieties of potatoes that will fight this fungus, given the comeback of fungi that cause late blight in potatoes. The late blight fungus, which caused a crop failure in Ireland in the 1840s, led to widespread famine, killing one million people and flocking to North America, the Washington Post reported. A few months ago, scientists warned that the fungus has started its comeback. It can resist most pesticides and may reduce world potato production by 15%. At present, all the continents except potato have been affected by late blight