Pictures for the Fungal Expo Board
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Just some pictures from the lab
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- samples being coated with a gold-palladium mix for conductivity
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- everything needed: medium, hot plate, sample, and microscopy slides and covers
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- the process
Cool new microscopy images
cereal rust 100x
- clamp connection being present was key in distinguishing similar genera
- key led me to genus Gonatobotryum, although it’s not a documented host-pest relationship, the genus fits as a biotroph
- Stripe rust spores
Creating Spore Chambers
Collecting pathogen sample from apple branch
Wetting Spore Chamber
Careful recording of lab procedures
3 Spore Chambers, we will check next week for fungal growth
From the farm to the lab
Herbarium Work
Making herbarium labels
preparing leek
Adding leek to collection
Circle Hawk Farm
Today we went to Circle Hawk Farm to look for pathogens. We did not find much there.
Lab Work
First agar plate
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- agar ingredients
Sina shows us how to pour a plate
Fungi!
Farm Work
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- Apple scab
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- Goats know that apple scab can not hurt you
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- sclerotia on leek
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- Calliope Farm’s Brassicas
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- downy mildew on lettuce
We went to the Common Ground farm and looked for fungal pathogens, we also helped to raise a barn and feed the goats.
Barn raising
Apple scab
Beet killing fungi
Infected leeks
Goats know that apple scab can not hurt you
Microscope work
Looking at fungi on local leeks
Conidia
- Apple scab fungus on apple leaf magnified 400 times