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• n  blight in which symptoms appear late in the growing season especially a disease of solanaceous plants caused by the fungus Phytophthora infestans

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• Wet Weather Brings Blight That Has Ruined Some N.J. Tomato Crops
  A wet June has ruined the tomato crops and caused financial peril for growers in parts of New Jersey, thanks to a disease called “late blight.”
  July 7, 2013 - CBS New York
• Jersey tomato, potato crops threatened by 'blight' disease found at five N.J. farms
  This season, the first case of late blight in the state was confirmed in Mercer on an organic farm in late June, said Meredith Melendez, agriculture coordinator for the Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Mercer County
  July 7, 2013 - Hunterdon County Democrat