This week, we finished up the final village for this stage of the disease survey. The remaining village is in the mountains, so its season starts later than other villages. As always, the tomato fields were located in a beautiful setting, and we found lots of diseases.
Beautiful surroundings
Not so beautiful disease: late blight (Phytophthora infestans, and lots of it!)
With the disease survey winding down, I have some more time to work in the lab.
Assembling my culture collection of bacterial pathogens of tomato
I love bacteria, especially when they look this awesome!
I also have more time to enter and look at my data.
Data entry is very difficult when distracting monkeys are around
This is the first time I’ve taken a work break to look at monkeys
Please send me a monkey for my birthday. Thank you!