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mamta verma

Protuberances were seen on Cucurbit leaves in the kitchen garden. I plucked a leaf to observe these outgrowths under foldscope. I could see presence of spore like structures. What are these warts d...

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Biological Sciences

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Cercospora leaf spot of bean

Soumitra Banerjee

In our institute garden of Jyothy Institute of Technology (Bangalore), we found bean leaves infected with some disease. On the leaf surface there were dark black spots surrounded by yellow zones. ...

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Biological Sciences

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Anthracnose of Cow pea

Meghashree H M

Stored dried pods of cowpea pods got infected and we observed black spots all over the pods. Fig: Infected cow pea pods It may be Anthracnose. Anthracnose is mainly a seed-borne disease caused by ...

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Biological Sciences

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Infected drumstick leaves

Soumitra Banerjee

There was some powdery mass like infection we found on lower surface of drumstick leaves. We brought those leaves into lab and observed under foldscope and we found amazing things. Fig: Infestati...

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Biological Sciences

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Microalgae in Pond water

Ajay Prakash

To mark the Leeuwenhoek day, I collected sample of pond water from my village in Punjab. It had been raining heavily past few days. However, today being partly sunny day, it was easy for me to coll...

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Biological Sciences

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Spores of mold infested peanut under foldscope

Soumitra Banerjee

Stored peanut seeds got infested with mold. Known weight of infested seeds were washed with known weight sterile water and then 10 μl of above water was taken on a glass slide covered with cover s...

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Biological Sciences

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Oribatid mite under foldscope

Soumitra Banerjee

We were planned to observe mold mycelia and spores which infested the stored jackfruit seeds. But while observing the mold under foldscope, suddenly we found a moving creature then we focused on th...

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