Gerald Holmes, Strawberry Center, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Bugwood.org
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Image Number: 1574739
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Symptoms
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. Healthy root on right. April 1998
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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 31, 2014
