Wheat Disease Profiles

These Extension Circulars cover a variety of viral, fungal, and bacterial diseases affecting wheat and explain how to manage them.

Wheat Disease Profiles I, EC1873 contains descriptions and photos of wheat diseases, including viral, foliar fungal, and fungal root and crown rot diseases, plus brief management suggestions. Diseases covered include barley yellow dwarf, wheat soilborne mosaic, wheat streak mosaic, high plains disease, wheat spindle streak mosaic, stripe rust, leaf rust, stem rust, tan spot, septoria tritici blotch, common root rot and crown rot, and powdery mildew.

Wheat Disease Profiles II, EC1875 contains descriptions and photos of fungal and bacterial wheat diseases that affect heads and grain and/or leaves, plus brief management suggestions. Diseases covered include loose smut, common bunt (sticking smut), ergot, fusarium head blight (scab), take-all, stagonospora nodorum blotch, bacterial streak and black chaff, cephalosporium stripe, black head molds (sooty head molds), and black point.