In 2024, over 165 million bushels of corn were impacted by stalk rot diseases. Learn how to identify different corn stalk rots to dial in your management plan.

(PhysOrg.com) -- A specific gene in corn seems to confer resistance to three important leaf diseases, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists and their university colleagues.

Corn Stunt disease is transmitted by the corn leaf-hopper. “This is a new bug, a different critter,” said Jay Wisbey, agricultural Extension agent for Saline and Ottawa counties in north ...

Northern corn leaf blight (NCLB) is a disease of corn caused by the fungus, Exserohilum turcicum. Severe outbreaks of the disease can cause up to 30-50% yield loss in dent corn if the disease is ...

Corn gene conferring resistance to multiple plant leaf diseases. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2017 / 07 / 170724113600.htm ...

Gray Leaf Spot (GLS) is also one of the top five damaging foliar corn diseases, according to the Crop Protection Network. GLS contributed to the loss of 80.5 million bushels of corn.

Anthracnose leaf blight and stalk rot of corn, caused by the fungus Colletotrichum graminicola, is a disease of worldwide importance. Yield losses can approach 40% and up to 80% lodging has been ...

Several fungicides are available to help manage southern rust, tar spot, gray leaf spot, and other leaf diseases with a recommended application occurring at late vegetative stages through R1 for most ...

It leaves us vulnerable to plant disease breakouts. Grist / Getty Images. Saima Sidik. Published Aug 22, 2023. ... the problem with southern corn leaf blight started years before the 1970 outbreak ...

The primary corn leaf diseases of concern in Kansas are: Anthracnose leaf blight. Symptoms are tan, irregular-shaped lesions on the lower leaves as early as V3 to V4.

Several fungicides are available to help manage southern rust, tar spot, gray leaf spot, and other leaf diseases with a recommended application occurring at late vegetative stages through R1 for most ...