If corn growers compiled a list of their greatest corn disease threats, gray leaf spot, northern corn leaf blight, southern corn leaf blight and Goss’s bacterial wilt would be right at the top.

Really, the problem with southern corn leaf blight started years before the 1970 outbreak, when scientists in the 1930s developed a strain of corn with a genetic quirk that made it a breeze for ...

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 ...

Really, the problem with southern corn leaf blight started years before the 1970 outbreak, when scientists in the 1930s developed a strain of corn with a genetic quirk that made it a breeze for ...

But by summer of 1970, it was there with a vengeance, inflicting a disease called southern corn leaf blight, which causes stalks to wither and die. The South got hit first, ...

Goss's wilt, a bacterial disease, and fungal diseases gray leaf spot, northern corn leaf blight, and southern corn leaf blight are important to growers across the Midwestern U.S. and, in some ...

In a changing climate, corn growers need to be ready for anything, including new and shifting disease dynamics, and corn with resistance to multiple diseases would be a huge benefit.

An 1805 botanical illustration from London that depicts corn blight. Nobody really knows how the fungus Bipolaris maydis got into the cornfields of the United States. But by the summer of 1970, it ...

In replicated trials, Phytalix demonstrated control of major fungal, viral, and bacterial pathogens including Northern and Southern Corn Leaf Blight, Gray Leaf Spot, Asian Soybean Rust, and ...

In a changing climate, corn growers need to be ready for anything, including new and shifting disease dynamics. Because it’s impossible to predict which damaging disease will pop up in a given year, ...