Pathology and biology of the potato late blight pathogen Phytophthora infestans

Phytophthora infestans is the causal agent of potato late blight. It belongs to the oomycetes, a unique group of eukaryotes that have a fungus-like growth morphology but evolved independent from the fungi. Our research focuses on the biology and pathology of P. infestans in particular on:

• Unravelling signal transduction pathways that underlie pathogenicity, thereby pinpointing targets for disease control.
• Identifying P. infestans elicitors of plant defence responses and assessment of their value for alternative disease control.

Late blight of potato, caused by Phytophthora infestans   


Publications          PhD theses


Members of the Phytophthora group

Francine Govers group leader
Harold Meijer		Klaas Bouwmeester
Rob Weide		Pieter van 't Hof
Chenlei Hua		Peter van Gisbergen

Ongoing Research Projects:

Under construction


Previous members

Rays Jiang		Pieter van Poppel
Shutong Wang		Zhijian Zhao
Peter van de Vondervoort		Mara de Sain