Isidora Silva-Valderrama won the 2023 BRC Photo Competition “Comunity Choice” Prize

Look at the post from the Beaty Museum of the winners for the 2023 Biodiversity Research Photo Competition!

📷 by Isidora Silva-Valderrama
Title: Beautiful Disease
Location: SuRDC, Summerland, Okanagan Valley, BC
Date: 18 OCT 2022
Description: Everything looks green at the beginning of the summer, but as the season goes on, the symptoms of this devastating fungal disease in grapevines are beautifully shown. While slowly killing the plant by severely damaging functional tissues, the fungi Phaeomoniella chlamydospora, Phaeoacremonium minimum and species of the Botryosphaeriacea family (among others), produce striking tiger-stipe leaves. The late externalization of what was happening uncontrollably and silently in the interior.
Affiliation: Ph.D. student, Davies Lab, Botany Department

Here is the Instagram post

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