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.

For farmers and those involved in hybrid seed production, such a time came when blight blew across the Corn Belt in the summer of 1970. A disease known as Southern corn leaf blight ...

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 ...

Three diseases-southern corn leaf blight, northern leaf blight, and gray leaf spot-all cause lesions on corn leaves worldwide. In the U.S. Midwest Corn Belt, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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, ...