mite outbreak

We found spider mites which feed on cultures in some phytophthora plates so we had to throw out a lot of cultures and decontaminate the incubators. This has set things back a little bit in the lab. I have instead been getting going with some data analysis of my field experiments which have been running for a year now. It's nice to see the seasonal differences in the species of phytophthora which do best at different temperatures. I now have more ideas about what to move forward with and I can repeat a second year of data to gain more confidence in my results.