April 2000

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Contents

- Focus on partners: Farmers groups, extension organizations and research  institutes team up to tackle late blight in seven countries

- Late Blight Abstracts

- PCR amplification of Phytophthora infestans from 19th century herbarium  specimens

- New pathologist joins TILB

- Southwest Asia linkage group meets at GCP

- Latin American linkage group

- Pathogen Variation and Evolution linkage group

- Global Potato News

- On the GILB website...

- Potato meetings

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