Transcript 2010 Art in APS - American Phytopathological Society

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 pathogenMonilinia 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 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.
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.
2010 Art in Phytopathology Contest