Corn Disease Guide

Leaf Diseases Scouting for Corn Diseases Ear Rots

Stage I Stage II Stage III
Emergence to Knee-
Knee- high Knee-
Knee - high to Tasseling Tasseling to Maturity
Seedling Blights*

Anthracnose Leaf Blight, Stewart’s Bacterial Leaf Blight, Eyespot,

Goss’s Wilt, Physoderma Brown Spot, Common Corn Smut, High Plains Virus Diplodia Ear Rot Aspergillus Ear Rot
(Stage III) (Stage III)
Anthracnose Leaf Blight Stewart’s Bacterial Leaf Blight
(Stages I, II, III) (Stages I, II, III) Northern Corn Leaf Blight, Southern Corn Leaf Blight, Common Rust, Southern
Rust, Crazy Top, Sorghum Downy Mildew*, Anthracnose Top Dieback & Stalk
Rot, Bacterial Stalk Rot*, Pythium Stalk Rot*, Maize Chlorotic Dwarf Virus, Maize
Dwarf Mosaic Virus, Corn Lethal Necrosis

All Ear & Kernel Rots

Gray Leaf Spot, Head Smut*, Charcoal

Rot, Diplodia Stalk Rot, Fusarium Stalk
Gray Leaf Spot Rot, Gibberella Stalk Rot, Red Root Rot Fusarium Ear Rot
(Stage III) Eyespot (Stage III) Gibberella Ear Rot
(Stages I, II, III)
(Stage III)
Goss’s Wilt
(Stages I, II, III) Smut/Virus/Fungal Systemic Diseases
Stalk & Root Rots

Southern Corn Leaf Blight

(Stages II, III)
Northern Corn Leaf Blight Physoderma Brown Spot High Plains Virus Corn Lethal Necrosis
(Stages II, III) (Stages I, II, III) (Stages II, III)
(Stages I, II, III)
Common Corn Smut Source: Howard F. Schwartz, Colorado Anthracnose Stalk Rot Charcoal Rot
(Stages I, II, III) State University, Bugwood.org (Stages II, III) (Stage III)
Red Root Rot
(Stage III)

Southern Rust (surface) Southern Rust (back)

Common Rust (Stages II, III) (Stages II, III)
(Stages II, III)
Gibberella Stalk Rot
Maize Chlorotic Dwarf Virus Maize Dwarf Mosaic Virus (Stage III)
Crazy Top Diplodia Stalk Rot Fusarium Stalk Rot
(Stages II, III) (Stages II, III) (Stage III)
(Stages II, III) (Stage III)
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