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2010 Art in Phytopathology

2010 Art in Phytopathology. Competition sponsored by the APS Graduate Student Committee. 1 st Place in Nature “The Fungal Con Artist”.

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2010 Art in Phytopathology

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  1. 2010 Art in Phytopathology Competition sponsored by the APS Graduate Student Committee

  2. 1st Place in Nature“The Fungal Con Artist” This mysterious flower imposter is actually a fungus! Carefully excavated from a colonized blueberry fruit is the intact ‘angel-wing’ structure of the mummy berry pathogen- Moniliniavaccinii-corymbosi. The shape and size of each ‘petal’ of this flower like structure is delineated by the locules in the fruit. The structure is itself held together by the seeds and placenta (brown) in the center of the fruit.

  3. 2nd Place in Nature“Potatoes can Frown” The photo is called “Potatoes can frown” and shows a potato tuber with symptoms of Potato Mop Top Virus infection.

  4. 3rd Place in Nature“Tobacco Mosaic Virus (TMV) Infected Tobacco Leaf This image shows artistic mosaic symptom, captured in flue-cured tobacco field using a Digital SLR camera. Image editing software Adobe Photoshop CS4 was used to create the “TMV” inscriptions from the mottled leaf. TMV was the first virus discovered on earth in 1883.

  5. Nature“Bubbling, oozing, slimy mound popping up; what has your golf course putting green got?” An unknown slime mold spreading across a creeping bentgrass / annual bluegrass putting green.

  6. Nature“It’s Alive!” Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae in it's telial state on Eastern Red Cedar.

  7. Nature“Dwarf Mistletoe Over Lake Tahoe” Female plants of western dwarf mistletoe (Arceuthobium sp.) on Jeffrey pine (Pinus jeffreyi Grev. & Balf.) along the shore of Lake Tahoe.

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