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| Moldy Sudan Grass Hay |
As a test of concept, I wanted to determine if a
Foldscope cellphone microscope could be used for field identification of fungal growth on hay. The answer is yes for the darker colored organisms. I took a tease tape of the suspected hay material. The 3M clear Scotch tape was attached to a microscope slide using clear fingernail polish as a mounting fluid. The
Epicoccum spp. and
Alternaria spp. spores can be seen. The
Cladosporium spp. spores are tougher to pick out in the background.
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| Photo of Epicoccum spp. through Foldscope attached to Samsung Galaxy S-5 camera |
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| Photo of Epicoccum spp. cropped and enlarged with Adobe Photoshop |
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| Photo of Epicoccum spp., Alternaria spp. and Cladosporium spp. taken with Samsung Galaxy S-5 camera through the eyepiece of Nikon Microscope 400x. The distance between 5 and 6 is 25 microns. |
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