UNL Greenhouse

As promised, here are some pictures of the inoculations that Carlos Urrea and crew have been working on over at the University.  They invited me over to watch the bacterial wilt inoculation on July 1st, 2011.  It was really interesting how they did it.  They have a couple of plants in each pot with one being the control that was not infected with the disease.  The other plants were pierced with the disease right in between the cotyledons and the unifoliolate leaves (first pair of leaves).  

This first picture is of the "jungle" that I was referring to the other day!  Wow, they have grown so much in just a couple of weeks since I was there last.  The crew said that they have to untangle them each day as they try to grow/vine together!

Check out the following:

Bacterial Wilt~inoculated July 1st, 2011
Photos courtesy of Carlos Urrea, University of Nebraska Panhandle Station

Bacterial Brown Spot~inoculated on July 6, 2011

Photos courtesy of Carlos Urrea, University of Nebraska Panhandle Station

Resistant

Susceptible

Bacterial Brown Spot Scale:  1, 3, 5, 7, 9
1, 3=Resistant; 5=Intermediate; 7,9=Susceptible

Bean Common Mosaic Virus~inoculated on July 18th, 2011

~These are pictures immediately after the inoculation.~

As you can see from the different leaf shapes, the inoculations were done on several different varieties of beans to test for disease resistance.  

 ~A special thanks to Carlos and crew for providing this information.~