Great special sessions! #PlantHealth2020, and wear your APS t-shirt day...ready for pumpkins diagnostic season to start!

When you wish upon a star shaped necrosis #bacterialleafspot #tonatodiseases

When a contaminated plate reminds you that it is almost Halloween #streakingXanthomonas #ydc

What counsel has the hooded moon...

Pumpkin season for a plant pathologist

How to make bitter rot less bitter

Database curation for large, complex genera of fungi like Fusarium is super important. Very happy that people like Kerry O'Donnell, @KirkBroders, David Geiser, and others are working on updating databases with accurate information! Thank you! doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-0…

Great work in this paper by Francesca Rotondo Francesca Rotondo E Bernal Eduardo Bernal X Ma, ML Ivey OHFruitPathology D Francis @Ohio_Tomato F Sahin, S Miller Sally A Miller tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… 🍅🧫🧬

USDA's Agricultural Research Service honors Scientists of the Year. Explore the list of 2022 honorees go.usa.gov/xzhv5

Leaf & fruit spot caused by the fungus Neopestalotiopsis. The disease was found in only 1 field in Alabama. Infected plants were eventually removed & destroyed. Fruit symptoms were also noted but spread was minimal most likely due to dry conditions this season #strawberry

This one is also quite funny

The Downy Moon... My poor basil! Ready to leave for #planthealth2022 #plantdiagnostics

Ohio State at the Alumni Social! #talks #posters #PlantHealth2022 #Pittsburgh 0-H-I-0

The revised EPPO Diagnostic Standard 'PM 7/146 (2) Tomato brown rugose fruit virus' is now freely available online in the EPPO Bulletin. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

Plant Path cohort completed the Inclusive Excellence program w/ Ohio State Office of Diversity and Inclusion - Our project and goal: Build a Framework to integrate DEIJ into our work/learning culture @msbenitezponce jj HoracioLopez-Nicora @PrettyPlantsDoc FrancescaRotondo EnricoBonello Monica Lewandowski

The romanticism for a plant diagnostician is when powdery meets downy on a rose! #osuplantpath

Diversity in molded chestnuts! OHFruitPathology OhioStatePlantPath #chestnuts #nutfungi

Gummy stem blight on butternut squash. The disease is not that common in North East Ohio, but with warmer weather, it might start showing up more.

Phytophthora blight is definitely around. Heavy rains can splashes zoospores from the infected soil to fruits and leaves. Read the post by Sally A Miller for the guidelines about the disease management u.osu.edu/miller.769/201… I added a bit of art&craft in the last picture!

The purple shades of Fusarium fruit rot