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2010 Art in Phytopathology Contest
2010 Art in Phytopathology
Competition sponsored by the APS Graduate Student Committee
2010 Art in Phytopathology Contest
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- Monilinia vaccinii-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.
2010 Art in Phytopathology Contest
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.
2010 Art in Phytopathology Contest
3rd Place in Nature“Tobacco Mosaic Virus (TMV) Infected
Tobacco LeafThis 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.
2010 Art in Phytopathology Contest
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.
2010 Art in Phytopathology Contest
Nature“It’s Alive!”
Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae in it's telial state on Eastern Red Cedar.
2010 Art in Phytopathology Contest
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.