Pictures of Some of the Common Sweetpotato Diseases Meristemming Removes:
            Russett Crack
            Large Veins
            Color Banding
            Deep Eyes
            Blocky Misshapen Sides
            Feathery Mottle Virus Symptoms
            Diseases and Viruses picked up  from diseased fields

           + Infections from Aphids, Thrips, other insects...

Beauregard and O'Henry sweetpotatoes infected with Russet Crack in early and advanced stages.

 

 

 

 

Wire Worm damage in Beauregard and O'Henry

 

 

 

 

"Koto Buki" sweetpotatoes showing several diseases;  Fusarium, Feathery Mottle, Scurf, Russet Crack, End Rot and deformities (blocky sides, gnarled disfigurements,deep lenticles, protruding veins etc.) due to diseases from the use of old seed.

 

 

 

A mild case of Color Banding on Beauregard Sweetpotatoes (front left) due to disease.  (Russet Crack and some Wire Worm Damage also pictured.)