Image Number: 1574738

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Description:
Rhizopus soft rot will turn sweetpotatoes into mush. Here a soft-rooted sweetpotato is dug out of plant beds where excessive heat and low oxygen exchange have led to rot. April 1998  
Image type:
Field

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Image location:
, Nash County

Subject

Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Zygomycota
Class: Zygomycetes
Subclass: Incertae sedis
Order: Mucorales
Family: Mucoraceae
Genus: Rhizopus
Subject: Rhizopus spp. Ehrenb.

Host

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Asteridae
Order: Solanales
Family: Convolvulaceae
Genus: Ipomoea
Subject: Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.
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Image uploaded:
Friday, October 22, 2010
Image last updated:
Friday, January 8, 2016