Wheat
Diseases in Ohio
Common
Bunt
- Symptoms
- small heads with
spreading glumes
- kernels converted
to bunt balls filled with black spores
- Environment
- adequate soil moisture
and moderate soil temperature favor seed germination and seedling infection
- Survival
- true seed-borne
- spores contaminate
seed surface during harvest
- seedling infection
- Management
- Scouting
