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Charles Averre, North Carolina State University, Bugwood.org
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Image Number: 1563311

bread mold (Rhizopus stolonifer (Ehrenb.) Vuill.) (Ehrenb.) Vuill.

Photographer:
Charles Averre
Organization:
North Carolina State University
Descriptor:
Sign
Description:
Cv Jewel.  Rhizopus soft rot is the most common disease found in stored sweetpotatoes.  The rot is soft, wet and often white, whiskery fungal growth covers the tissue.  Later black spores develop. (May73)
Image type:
Laboratory
Host:
sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.)

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Subject

Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Zygomycota
Class: Zygomycetes
Subclass: Incertae sedis
Order: Mucorales
Family: Mucoraceae
Genus: Rhizopus
Subject: Rhizopus stolonifer (Ehrenb.) Vuill.

Host

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Asteridae
Order: Solanales
Family: Convolvulaceae
Genus: Ipomoea
Subject: Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.
Node Affiliation:
Bugwood - UGA
Image uploaded:
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Image last updated:
Tuesday, September 1, 2009