Mariela Fernandez Campos
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Mariela Fernandez Campos
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Ph.D candidate.
Digital Plant Pathology | Epidemiology |
Purdue University20' | EAP Zamorano16' |
Costa Rica🇨🇷 pura vida ✨️
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"Using [silage] hybrids with resistance to tar spot lowered disease severity & preserved yield & nutritive value. Fungicide...helped in lowering tar spot...but had no effect on yield & nutritive value."

From the article at acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1....

#science 🧪 #corn #farming
Tar spot impacts silage corn yield and forage nutritive value
Tar spot is an emerging foliar disease in silage corn in Michigan and the Great Lakes Region resulting in devastating yield and nutritive value losses. Our research focused on quantifying these losse...
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March 10, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Ink painting/drawing of maize tar spot, caused by the fungus Phyllachora maydis.

N.B. You can find all of my prior paintings here: hgpenningtonart.com
The painting shows a corn (maize) stem with one leaf, and one partial leaf. There are small black stromata (fruiting bodies) on the leaf, which resemble tar. The stromata can be seen on the adaxial and abaxial leaf surfaces, occasionally coalescing into stripes.
December 3, 2023 at 11:52 AM
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Differences Among Fungal Microbiomes Associated with Tar Spot of Corn in Ecuador, Guatemala, and Indiana, USA https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.07.637150v1
February 9, 2025 at 4:04 AM