# @ncstatecals on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/B02ARAdgSba
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/15082912-ncstatecals-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2019-08-07T01:10:03.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NC State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (@NCStateCALS) — https://gondola.cc/NCStateCALS

## Caption

From a holiday #sweetpotato emergency to persistent cucumber pathogens, #NCStateCALS Professor Lina Quesada-Ocampo is on the front lines helping #vegetable growers deal with devastating #plantdiseases. .
Originally from #Colombia, she had worked with #cassava and the late blight of potato. Through those experiences, she became fascinated with vegetables and specialty #crops in general.
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I don’t choose what the next problem is going to be – it’s just going to come to my table, and I work to fix it. Growers say, “We need you to work on this,’’ and that’s what I do. That can also mean switching gears quickly and having #resilience, which can be difficult, but I like new and diverse things, and the funding provided by growers allows us to have that flexibility. — Lina Quesada-Ocampo

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## Tags

ncstatecals, resilience, vegetable, crops, plantdiseases, cassava, sweetpotato, colombia

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