Tots with rots

These are the some sample photos I regularly shared while I was a Master's student in the Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology Department at Penn State University studying the bacteria associated with potato blackleg and soft rot diseases. While I have shifted into other pathosystems, this disease and it's associated pathogens sparked my interested in plant pathology and I still love talking about them.

This was the first day in the field for my Masters. A potato infected by Dickeya and/or Pectobacterium spp. (bacterial species) may become so degraded, you could fit it in a centrifuge tube!