Corn Disease Profiles

This set of three Extension Circulars covers foliar, stalk rot, and ear rot diseases that affect corn and the management of these diseases.

Corn Disease Profiles I, EC1867, contains descriptions, photos and brief management suggestions of foliar corn diseases such as gray leaf spot, common rust, southern rust, eyespot, physoderma brown spot, Goss’s bacterial wilt and blight, Holcus spot, Stewart’s bacterial wilt, and various viral diseases including high plains disease, maize chlorotic mottle, maize dwarf mosaic, wheat streak mosaic, and corn lethal necrosis.

Corn Disease Profiles II, EC1868, contains descriptions, photos and brief management suggestions for anthracnose stalk rot, fusarium stalk rot, gibberella stalk rot, diplodia stalk rot, charcoal rot, and bacterial stalk rot.

Corn Disease Profiles III, EC1901, contains descriptions and photos of ear rot diseases and grain molds of corn with brief management suggestions. Diseases included are aspergillus ear rot; diplodia ear rot; fusarium ear rot; gibberella ear rot; pencillium ear rot; and cladosporium ear rot.