One of the greatest famines of the nineteenth century suffered by the Irish people which led to over 1 million deaths due to starvation was caused by a fungal infection of the potato crop. The disease it caused was (a) early blight of potatoes (b) heart rot of potatoes (c) late blight of potatoes (d) potato mosaic

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