Campus Units

Plant Pathology and Microbiology

Document Type

Article

Publication Version

Published Version

Publication Date

5-4-2015

Journal or Book Title

Plant Health Progress

Volume

16

Issue

2

First Page

90

Last Page

92

DOI

10.1094/PHP-BR-15-0003

Abstract

Physoderma brown spot (PBS) and stalk rot (PSR) of corn is caused by the fungus Physoderma maydis and was first described in 1910 in India and then in 1911 in Illinois, U.S. (Tisdale 1919). In the 1930s, PBS caused 5–10% yield losses in the southeastern United States (Eddins 1933). The pathogen is now found in most corn-producing areas in the world. PBS is not usually considered an economically important disease in the Midwest, but incidence of the disease has increased within the past decade in Iowa. In 2013, the estimated yield loss from this disease was over 13 million bushels (ranked 6 of 14 foliar diseases) in the United States and Ontario, Canada (Mueller et al. 2014).

Comments

This article is published as Robertson, A. E., Jesse, L., Munkvold, G., Salaau Rojas, E., and Mueller, D. S. 2015. Physoderma brown spot and stalk rot of corn caused by Physoderma maydis in Iowa. Plant Health Progress 16: 90-92. doi: 10.1094/PHP-BR-15-0003. Posted with permission

Copyright Owner

The American Phytopathological Society

Language

en

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