Genotyping the oldest potato blight specimen from Belgian mycologist Marie-Anne Libert.

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Marie-Anne Libert, a Belgian mycologist was working on the cryptogamic flora of Malmedy when the first potato late blight outbreaks reached the European continent in 1845. Libert, an educated and self-trained mycologist, began collecting samples of the pathogen from infected potato fields. She examined them microscopically and was the first person to provide the name Botrytis vastatrix to the pathogen now known...

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