Use As A Biological Weapon
France, Canada, USA, and the Soviet Union researched P. infestans as a biological weapon in the 1940s and 50s. Potato blight was one of more than 17 agents that the United States researched as potential biological weapons before the nation suspended its biological weapons program.
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