Late-Season Colonization and Survival ofFusarium graminearumGroup II in Cornstalks in Minnesota
- 1 January 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Scientific Societies in Plant Disease
- Vol. 68 (9) , 791-793
- https://doi.org/10.1094/pd-69-791
Abstract
From 1973 through 1983, 14.6% of nearly 7500 green cornstalks, collected from mid-Sept. through early Nov., were infected by F. graminearum. Of rotted (standing or lodged) stalks collected at the same time as green stalks in 1981 and 1982, 84.4% yielded F. graminearum. Recovery of F. graminearum from overwintered, standing cornfields the following spring was 61%, and recovery from 1-yr-old basal stalk pieces the following fall was 31%. Mature perithecia of Gibberella zeae developed in 99% of the isolates tested, which verifies the occurrence of the Group II population on corn in Minnesota. F. graminearum gains possession of pith tissue late in the growing season as stalks ripen and it predominates as tissues senesce, thereby increasing its inoculum potential and survival niches for the following season.Keywords
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