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Oats (Avena sativa)-Loose Smut March 2025 See: Fungicide Effectiveness as Seed Treatments ... replace kernels and chaff. Black, smutted heads are easily distinguished as soon as heads emerge from ...

as spores in soil or in smut balls in seed. A wide range of species in 14 genera of Gramineae ... and seed heads are one quarter to one half the size of healthy heads. Kernels are replaced by smut balls ...

Dahlia-Smut March 2025 Cause Entyloma dahliae (formerly Entyloma calendulae f. dahliae), ... or mancozeb-based materials used for flower blight control will help control smut. Reference Mordue, J.E.M. 1984. ...

Barley (Hordeum vulgare)-Covered Smut March 2025 See: Fungicide Effectiveness as Seed Treatments ... of infected plants are replaced by masses of dark brown smut spores. When infected heads emerge, a whitish ...

Corn (Zea mays)-Head Smut March 2025 Cause Sporisorium reilianum (syns. = Sorosporium reilianum, ... may be aborted or mere rudiments with leaf buds instead of the normal ear. Usually, smut spores ... structures. Smut may infect both the ear and tassel in some plants; if only the ear is infected, tassels ...

Onion (Allium cepa)-Smut March 2025 Cause Urocystis magica (syn. = U. cepulae) and U. colchici, ... restrictions. Control smut by an in-furrow drench at seeding. Dithane DF Rainshield (Group M3) at 3 lb/A in 75 ...

Teliospore March 2024 Thick-walled resting spore produced by some fungi, notably rusts and smuts ...

(e.g., rust, smut, white rust, etc.). ...

Lawn and Turf-Stripe Smut March 2025 See: Grass for Seed- Stripe Smut Hosts Many, but primarily ... the smut penetrates, it usually spreads through the entire plant. Many grass species are susceptible. ...

Wheat (Triticum aestivum)- Common Bunt (Stinking Smut) Wheat (Triticum aestivum)- Fusarium Root, Crown, ...