Hi Chris... Thanks for this animation. Its amazing. I work in this field especially the invasion of entomopathogenic fungi such as Metarhizium that invade harmful insects and save crops. Waiting for that kinda video 😊. Great work
@@lilianacano5794 hi Liliana. Yes it was exactly that. It was an internal CSIRO grant with enough funds to spend 5 months producing the animation. The time is spent on background research/literature review, storyboarding and then production/animation.
I mean its a beautiful animation but I would've loved to see the full disease cycle of said rust. Black stem rust of wheat changes its spore types more than I change my underwear and need two hosts to complete: barberry and wheat. the spores change from uridiospores (seen in the animation) to telispores to basidiospores to pycnospores to aceaospores. its weird mang.
Damn, just found this through learning about Rust Fungi through /r/mycology. Really sad you only have 3 videos and they're from so long ago. This was very informative and really well-made. Thank you for educating.
Let me tell you about rust fungi and round up or glyphosate. I have two gardens near each other. Both grew huge crops of mallow weed during the winter and early spring. My brother was spraying Roundup around the fence lines to kill the weeds. I do not know what struck him to spray round up in my garden area but he did. The mala weeds which were very healthy some 4 feet high developed severe rust infection as they were poisoned by the round up. I compared them with the second garden with mala weeds just as healthy and big that he didn’t spray and while there was a tiny dots of rust on an occasional leaf it was not infected like the mallow poisoned with round up in the first garden. As the plants were poisoned with the glyphosate their immune system‘s failed and they were overrun with the rust fungi. Now that rust fungi will be blowing in the wind and spread all over the place to other hosts like apple and rose. I’m sure fungi spores have gotten all over my work clothes and spread all around every place that I walked also. I’m not at all surprised that wheat has many problems with rust being that the surrounding weeds are sprayed with glyphosate leaving them vulnerable to disease which then allows rust to multiply and fungus spores to spread.u
You make an interesting point, that's one more reason to do our best in minimizing drifting when applying herbicides. Keep in mind though that pathogens are usually very specific to their hosts, so it's likely that the rust on mallow is not one of those that attack wheat
The biology also seems very accurate, even thought this is not my field of study (pharmaceutical biotechnologies). I do some biology-based modeling in Blender and I'm thinking about a career in molecular animation but I don't know where to begin. I talked to many people here in the UK but I don't find much interest of helpful advices.
Well it can be hard to make a career making these videos - we needed funding for each video that I created, which took a lot of work. In terms of the biology - I got to work with Peter Dodds on this video, who is a leading researcher in rust fungi. If you want to be successful making videos about biology, you need to prepare yourself well in terms of video-making technique (and 3D animation if you choose to do that) and look out for good opportunities. It never hurts to just talk with scientists and start working with them to produce videos. Hopefully that will lead to some funding opportunities.
NiceVideo @Chris Hammang. SIR CHRIS can I used your video for a infomercial video? Surely, I will give your proper credits.. I hope it will be fine for you.. Thank you for the video.
Yes, there are. There are a lot of kind of plant resistance to pathogens, such as non host resistance. Wheat stem rust fungus can't infect maize, for instance, because maize has this kind of resistance. On the other hand, there is resistance at pathogen race level, i.e., some wheat varieties are more resistant than other to wheat stem rust.
