Occasionally, they would take to the air to kill people with their knifelike talons and blight the crops with poisonous excrement. |
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In reality organic potato producers frequently have to remove potato haulms early because of foliage blight. |
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Trees appear to resist bacterial canker but are very susceptible to fire blight. |
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Many factors have been blamed for the barren spell, the most obvious being the regional politics that blight their domestic game. |
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Note that blight is not restricted to stagnant or declining regions and cities. |
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The old, washed-out white tents began to dot the promenade like the annoying blight on my ixora plants. |
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That would allow the city to remove blight from the docket of the 36th District Court. |
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The residents are quite rightly convinced it will blight the area and lead to increased crime and a downward spiral of house prices. |
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In the corn blight case, susceptibility to blight is conditioned by the mitochondrial genome. |
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They are a blight on many city centres and disfigure urban life to an intolerable degree. |
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Poseidon is an old-fashioned prudent God that will punish any naughty humans with a blight of bothersome crabs in their nether regions. |
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But years of heavy rains in the area following the formation of the co-op caused the spread of a plant blight known as scab. |
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A leafy neighbourhood of detached and semi-detached homes much removed from the urban blight of Scottish cities. |
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Once the strands unite, the wild blight fungus contracts the disease and its killing power wanes. |
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Unlike bacterial blight, warm temperatures do not limit development of bacterial pustule. |
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Disease problems can include powdery mildew, Botrytis blight, aster yellows, leaf spots, viruses and foliar nematodes. |
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Glasgow's high-rise social housing had become synonymous with urban blight and social deprivation. |
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Instead, it declined precipitously, becoming by the 1990s one of the country's poorest cities and a national symbol of urban blight. |
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The spray-painted art was considered an urban blight by New York officials, who persecuted the young artists who created it. |
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On a street pocked with dark storefronts, and in a neighborhood with its share of urban blight, the Beachland's neon sign is a beacon. |
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Urban blight and flight is transformed into bustle, bounty, and bidding wars. |
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Other problems that could be bothersome include mildew, leaf spot, and bacterial blight. |
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However, the figures are still dwarfed by the huge scale of the problem of urban dereliction and blight in the area. |
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Bacterial blight and bacterial pustule have been identified in many soybean fields this year. |
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It is interesting to note that the 1970s corn blight resulted from an attempt to introduce an element of diversity to the corn plant. |
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Apart from the blue crystals of copper sulphate that would appear to spray the potatoes against blight, chemicals belonged to another world. |
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I passed through a scene impressive in its aspect of desolation, and almost a tribute to the destructive power of the chestnut blight. |
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This attractive, glossy red apple has some resistance to diseases such as apple scab, cedar apple rust, and fire blight. |
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But late blight attacks quickly and is capable of defoliating a field within a matter of weeks. |
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This has been done for agronomic traits in barley and for blight resistance in chickpea and rice. |
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Rather, just one of those tragic moments which can blight people's lives anywhere, anytime. |
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So the prophets are split neatly between impending economic doom and postponed blight. |
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Honeycrisp blooms mid-season and is moderately resistant to apple scab and fire blight. |
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The rest is superficial, a blight of the modern obsession with looks and image. |
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Puddles can create ideal conditions for diseases such as root rot, damping off and seedling blight. |
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Pod and stem blight and Phomopsis seed rot occur throughout Ohio, but are more prevalent in the southern and western regions of the state. |
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They try their best to catch out the people who do not clean up after their pets and blight the streets. |
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This is the season when powdery mildew, late blight and other fungal diseases arrive. |
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These items can become stuck on trees or in hedgerows and cause a blight on the landscape. |
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It is another example of the illusion of competition, the fraudulent notion of fairness and equality that is an increasing blight. |
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Shops in Epsom are supporting the fight against vandals who blight the borough with their graffiti tags. |
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The average date of outbreak of blight for maincrop potatoes is in the latter half of July. |
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The trials will investigate the suitability of different potato varieties and the influence of soil fertility on potato blight. |
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Another issue is a particular variety's vulnerability to common diseases such as scab or fire blight. |
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The stable food, the potato rotted from the land as the first strains of malignant blight struck, and there was nothing left to eat. |
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But that changed 150 years ago, when Ireland's potato blight and Britain's refusal to bail out the Irish sent millions to the emigrant ships. |
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The blight also infected chinquapins, and some species of oak, especially post oak, Quercus Stella. |
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Her concerns include possible health risks to children and the blight on her property. |
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All I am to him is the bane of his existence, the blight of his life, the central focus of why he hates his job and wants to kill himself. |
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The tree seems to be experiencing dieback similar to fire blight. |
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Was part of the attraction to the project shining a light in this bizarre blight on America? |
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Increasingly, cities long left to rot are rising from the ashes of blight as they try to become shining examples of new urbanism. |
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Others announced layoffs and cutbacks and every manner of cancer and blight. |
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First impressions are so important yet at the height of the holiday season in East London there is a blight on the city's Esplanade beachfront that jars and jolts. |
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There have been warnings of late of potato blight and people with sowings of potatoes would be well advised to spray. |
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This project combines fire rehabilitation with watershed and ecosystem restoration on sites where loblolly pine has been ravaged by bugs and blight. |
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Diseases such as anthracnose, spur blight, and mildew may be more prevalent if irrigation is not accompanied by adequate disease-control measures. |
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Other diseases include rust, crown gall, anthracnose and petal blight. |
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She paints the current rodent situation as more than a foul inconvenience, and one that is a particular blight on poorer areas. |
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When late blight is first identified in an area, the information is entered on a map so that the location and date of the outbreak is obvious at a glance. |
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The trees have been attacked by a bacterial disease known as fire blight. |
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Survey fields for damage from leaf blight disease at tasseling. |
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These fungi are notorious for causing a disease called scab, or Fusarium head blight, in grains such as wheat and barley, as well as ear and stalk rot of corn. |
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Development of bacterial blight is promoted by cool, wet weather. |
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It's easy to forget the former blight and decay of this part of Southwark. |
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The sense that historical fiction had sunk to the condition of adventure stories for boys, and romance for the millions, cast a blight on the genre in the 20th cent. |
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I can imagine picking up a nest of birdlings to raise in hopes of their survival from the devastation and blight that is being wreaked upon their surroundings. |
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For the uninitiated, the film is set on a future Earth whose crops have been wiped out by a mysterious blight. |
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The blight is actually a fungus called rhytisma acerinum and has infected trees all the way from Ottawa to Barrie to Windsor in the past several years. |
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As with other small fruits, Botrytis primarily affects ripening fruit, although under certain circumstances the fungus can cause stem blight as well. |
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This city of sinners has been a blight upon the land for too long. |
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The barren South Bronx neighborhood that Ronald Reagan visited in 1980 to illustrate urban blight is now a thriving area, with, inevitably, a Starbucks. |
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The result is that intercultural and intergroup dialogue is always difficult, and widespread misunderstanding adds to the blight of the overall area. |
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If there were witches, who could blight your crops, make you sterile, and turn you into a newt just by an incantation or two, then of course we should hunt them. |
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She could blight crops as easily as bless them, deliver at a difficult lambing and assist the occasional human birth for those too poor to have a more qualified attendant. |
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Several forms of copper are suitable for fire blight control. |
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The latest blight has nearly wiped out the river grass that soma is extracted from. |
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The great financial crisis of 2008 to 2009, whose consequences still blight our economy, is sometimes portrayed as a black swan. |
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Common onion diseases include damping off, botrytis leaf blight, downy mildew, and bacterial blight. |
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Approved for use on stone fruits and almonds to control brown rot, blossom and twig blight, and fruit brown rot. |
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We have lost too many champions to Dutch elm disease, chestnut blight, and oak wilt. |
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She refers to Aviemore as a diseased blight whose continuing existence diminishes Scotland. |
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A surprising number of parochial Brit rappers have emerged in its wake, notably Dizzee Rascal, squawking his stories of knife-waving psychosis and urban blight. |
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Every perception enters an imaginal file, buds in arrest until swayed by a life-shifting rain or the blight of the news of an unknown person's death. |
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A wild relative of the potato was found in Peru, and when it was hybridized with the standard crop plant a variety was obtained that was resistant to potato blight. |
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In 1844, a new form of potato blight was identified in America. |
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But he thinks that in coastal California the ecological damage from large die-offs of oaks could surpass the harm caused by chestnut blight back east. |
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You are a blight upon the human race and a disgrace to your profession. |
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The potato constituted the main dietary staple for most Irish and when the blight struck a number of successive harvests social and economic disintegration ensued. |
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These problems include bagworms, pine wilt disease, Sphaeropsis Tip Blight of pine, along with others. |
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There had been bad cases of Blight in certain years from the late 1770's and for at least three years previous to 1847 the crop had been failing. |
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The advice given to those affected by the potato blight bordered on the absurd. |
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Whether old-fashioned or newfangled, they blight surrounding neighborhoods and prevent them from reviving. |
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You can't pretend the wheat doesn't have head blight, a cow doesn't have blackleg, or that predators don't prey. |
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A man in Co. Limerick found that blight could be controlled by an application of bluestone and lime, or bluestone and washing soda. |
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She refers to the place as a diseased blight whose continuing existence diminishes the country. |
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Prevent halo blight, small brown spots surrounded by a yellow halo on the leaves, by never soaking seeds before sowing. |
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Phytophthora infestans is a fungus-like Oomycete which causes the disease on potato known as late blight or potato blight. |
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Prior to the arrival in Ireland of the disease Phytophthora infestans, commonly known as blight, there were only two main potato plant diseases. |
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The Alliance also presented DfT and HS2 Ltd with a pilot study on property blight. |
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The only sure way of avoiding potato blight is to routinely spray plants with Bordeaux mixture or Dithane before they become affected. |
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The agency has used the blight excuse to dump any number of small businesses and instead subsidize biggies like Target. |
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Researchers tested the most common diseases including potato blight, clubroot, rust, powdery and downy mildew. |
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She said this year's blight of webworms have affected a very small percentage of trees and should not affect the fall color. |
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It ought not to take an army of citizen volunteers and a strong-willed city councilwoman to organize one-day crackdowns on blight. |
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Gala, Honeycrisp, and Fuji are susceptible to fire blight, a bacterial disease that can kill a tree. |
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Another relative native to this region, Solanum bulbocastanum, has been used to genetically engineer the potato to resist potato blight. |
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However, if they are run-down, parks can blight communities, become no-go areas and mean communities are deprived of the space they need. |
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The outbreak of chestnut blight fungus from imported chestnut stock was first observed in New York and spread like wild-fire. |
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Gypsy moth, Kudzu vine, Dutch elm disease, chestnut blight, starlings and Mediterranean fruit flies come easily to mind. |
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Within a few decades, the chestnut blight killed up to three billion American chestnut trees on over 200 million acres of woodland. |
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Fire blight is also one of the most serious diseases of some fruit trees belonging to the Rosaceae family. |
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Pyracanthus are subject to fire blight, a disease that causes the branches to turn black as if they have been burned. |
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After the potato blight, there were more people than the land could support. |
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Use PreGro to eliminate the threat of common pests and diseases, ranging from black spot to blight to cutworms and caterpillars. |
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When potato blight hit Ireland in 1846, much of the rural population was left without food. |
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The Almighty, indeed, sent the potato blight, but the English created the famine. |
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A likely source was the eastern United States, where in 1843 and 1844 blight largely destroyed the potato crops. |
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Instead of waiting for the arrival of blight, spray against it with Bordeaux mixture in July and then once a fortnight until September. |
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The ordinary hot saw, for sawing iron at a blight red heat, differs but little from a common circular wood-saw. |
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Diseases such as apple scab, a fungus, and fire blight, a bacterial disease, are dependent upon temperature and moisture, degree days and leaf wetness. |
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Tetracycline, along with the antibiotic streptomycin, is used in organic production to control a disease known as fire blight that affects apples and pears. |
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Short-termism is one of the things that can blight a club's prospects. |
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This is a broad spectrum protective fungicide effective against early and late blight on potatoes and tomatoes, various fungal diseases on vegetables, fruits and ornamentals. |
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The scientists discovered that the spray-on bacteria also stymie infection of stored spuds by Phytophthora infestans, the funguslike organism responsible for late blight. |
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Identification of AFLP markers closely linked to the rhm gene for resistance to southern corn leaf blight in maize by using bulked segregant analysis. |
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When potato blight hit the island in 1846, much of the rural population was left without food, because cash crops were being exported to pay rents. |
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Other pathogens include anthracnose, bacterial soft rot, blight caused by Sclerotium rolfsii, bulb nematodes, other rots including blue molds, black molds and mushy rot. |
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Set in a post-apocalyptic America of plagues and fear, ecological disaster and moral blight, The Pesthouse is a vision of the American dream gone horribly awry. |
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Scientists knew that the funguslike microbe Phytophthora infestans causes potato blight, and for years a lineage called US-1 shouldered the blame. |
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Those obscene tattoos are going to blight your job prospects. |
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In August 2012 EuroMillions lottery winner Les Scadding succeeded Chris Blight as club chairman. |
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The tunnel will minimise blight for residents and businesses and eliminate the substantial impact of traffic which a surface route would otherwise have caused. |
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All that blooth means heavy autumn work for him and his hands. If no blight happens before the setting the apple yield will be such as we have not had for years. |
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Blight can only survive in living tissue, so there's no danger in composting the diseased haulms. |
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Recent additions to the collections include seven species of fungi in the chestnut blight group that were discovered and described in the past few years. |
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However, I want earlier blossoms next year so I've chosen a lovely collection of tulips but, to reduce the risk of fire blight, I won't plant them for a couple of months yet. |
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