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Agriculture 2012, 2, 182-203; doi:10.3390/agriculture2030182 OPEN ACCESS agriculture ISSN 2077-0472 /journal/agriculture Review Taro Leaf Blight—A Threat to Food Security Davinder Singh 1,*, Grahame Jackson 2, Danny Hunter 3, Robert Fullerton 4, Vincent Lebot 5, 6 7 8 4 Mary Taylor , Tolo Iosefa , Tom Okpul and Joy Tyson 1 Plant Breeding Institute Cobbitty, University of Sydney, Cobbitty, NSW 2570, Australia 2 24 Alt Street, Queens Park, NSW 2022, Australia; E-Mail: grahame.jackson@ 3 Bioversity International, Rome 00057, Italy; E-Mail: d.hunter@ 4 The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research, Mt Albert, Auckland 1025, New Zealand; E-Mails: bob.fullerton@plantandfood.co.nz (B.F.); joy.tyson@plantandfood.co.nz (J.T.) 5 CIRAD, Port Vila, Vanuatu; E-Mail: lebot@.vu 6 Secretariat of Pacific Community, Suva, Fiji; E-Mail: maryt@ 7 Department of Crop Sciences, University of South Pacific, Apia, Samoa; E-Mail: tolo.iosefa@samoa.usp.ac.fj 8 Department of Agriculture, University of Technology, Lae, Morobe 411, Papua New Guinea; E-Mail: tomokpul@.au * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: davinder.singh@.au; Tel.: +61-2 Fax: +61-2 Received: 23 May 2012; in revised form: 15 June 2012 / Accepted: 4 July 2012 / Published: 16 July 2012 Abstract: Taro leaf blight (caused by the Oomycete Phytophthora colocasiae) is a disease of major importance in many regions of the world where taro is grown. Serious outbreaks