Symptoms
Infections appear as dark, chocolate-colored blotches. The spots merge, eventually forming irregular dead patches on the leaves. Leaf spots may be surrounded by a zone of yellow leaf tissue of varying width. Spot may also appear on the leaf sheaths, necks and heads of the plant. Heavily infected leaves dry up completely, and infections on the flag leaf during kernel filling are the most serious.
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