Corn Diseases
Corn Diseases
Corn Diseases
What is Disease?
Symptoms
mycelia
Spores
Bacterial ooze
Sclerotial bodies
Fruiting bodies
Plant disease diagnosis
Important of diagnosis
Correct plant disease diagnosis is necessary for
recommending the appropriate control measures, and in
plant disease survey
CORN DISEASES
Seed/Seedling Stages of Corn
Seed Rot, Seedling Blight, and
Damping-Off
Symptoms :
Rotting of seeds; death prior to or shortly after
germination (damping-off); yellowing, wilting
and death of plants due to rotten roots and stems.
Causes:
Fungus (species of Pythium, Fusarium, Diplodia and
Penicillium)
Control
cultivated soil.
Downy Mildew
Symptoms
Chlorotic areas, streaks or stripes at the base of lower
leaves with increasing proportion in succeeding leaves.
Presence of whitish downy growth on the surface of
the chlorotic area.
Causal pathogen
Fungus (Peronosclerospora philippinensis, P. sorghi, P.
maydis, P.sacchari, Sclerospora graminicola,
Control
Symptoms
Highly variable; irregular, light and dark green mottle or
mosaic on younger leaves that may develop into narrow, light
green or yellowish streaks along the veins. The mosaic often
appears as dark green “islands” on a chlorotic background. As
the plant develops, mosaic symptoms often disappear and
young leaves become more yellow. Stunting may be slight or
more pronounced depending on the susceptibility of the
cultivar.
Control:
Cause :
Maize stripe virus (MStpV)
Control
Control
Plant resistant var. control
aphids
Bacterial Rot
Symptoms
Manifested in the form of top rot, stalk rot, root rot
and/or ear rot. Affected tissues are soft and mushy and emit
disagreable odor.
Cause:
Erwinia chrysanthemi pv zeae
(E. carotovora var zeae).
Control
Distribution: Worldwide.
Most prevalent in cooler environments
Symptoms
Long, elliptical and grayish-green or tan lesions, ranging
from 2.5 to 15 cm in length. Grayish black moldy growth
consisting of large number of spores are produced on the
lesions, usually on the lower leaf surface. Lesions on plants
with Ht genes are smaller, chlorotic, and may develop into
linear streaks and do not sporulate.
Cause: Fungus, Setosphaeria turcica (Helminthosporium
turcicum).
Control:
Symptoms
Pin-point sized spots surrounded by a yellow halo, which
mature into distinctly rectangular lesions delineated by
the veins on either side which run parallel.
Cause: Fungus (Cercospora zeae-maydis)
Control
Cause
Diplodia macrospora
and D. maydis (S. maydis)
Control
Symptoms
Bleached to straw-colored lesions starting from the base
of the ear. Husks tightly pasted together by the white
fungus mycelium. Black pycnidia scattered on the surface of
the husks, kernels and cobs.
Cause
Diplodia macrospora (Stenocarpelia macrospora and D.
maydis (S. maydis)
Control
Avoid highly susceptible cultivars. Practice deep
plowing and field sanitation.
Diplodia Stalk Rot
Symptoms
Wilting and drying of leaves above the infected nodes.
Leaves below the infected node remain green. Stalk around
the point of entry are discolored.
Cause
Diplodia macrospora (Stenocarpelia macrospora) and D.
maydis (S. maydis)
Control
Cause
Cause
Fungus (Gibberella zeae)
Control
Cause
Gibberella zeae
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