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PRO/PL> Physoderma, maize – USA: emerging
Other Plant Disease -- United StatesAlison Robertson, Iowa State University, is warning farmers to keep their eyes open for an emerging corn disease, which has the potential to reduce yields to near zero. She said there have been increased sightings of physoderma, a corn disease that had gone unseen in the US for decades but has been spotted more and more since 2007.The disease is caused by the fungus _Physoderma maydis_, and first appeared in India in 1910. In the 1930s, the disease hit the south Read more [...]
