Maize Diseases: A Guide for Field Identification

acremonium Anamorph Aspergillus Black bundle disease Botryodiplodia Carbonum caused Charcoal stalk rot chlorosis chlorotic spots chlorotic stripes coalesce Colletotrichum graminicola color corn stunt spiroplasma cottony dark brown Diseased plants downy mildew downy mildew Peronosclerospora dwarf mosaic virus elongated False head smut flowering foliar fungus Fusarium moniliforme ear Gibberella zeae Glomerella graminicola graminicola humid areas husks infect maize Infected kernels internodes kernels kernels and cob kernels Photo leaf and sheath leaf spot leafhoppers leaves Photo leaves show lesions macrospora maize bushy stunt Maize dwarf mosaic Maize streak virus margins masses of spores Maydis leaf blight mollicute moniliforme ear rot mycelium necrotic necrotic lesions nubbins oval pathogen phytoplasma plants approach Polysora rust produce Pustules pycnidia Pythium round sclerotia seedling shredded sorghi species Spiroplasma spot complex stages of infection Stenocarpella ear rot Stewart's wilt streaks Teleomorph transmit the virus Turcicum leaf blight vascular bundles vector WSMV yellow youngest leaves