Fungi Identification - Flashcards
Rhizopus rot strawberries
Rhizopus stolonifer
Rot of Peach
Rhizopus stolonifer
Wet rot of squash
Choanephora cucurbitarum
Pythium
Seed & seedling
Phytopthora
Seed & seedling
Gray Leaf Spot of Corn
Cercospora
Symptoms: long - rectangular, well-defined
Frogeye leaf spot of soybeans
Cercorspora
Symptoms: eyespots
Southern Rust of Corn
Orange, big
Wheat Stripe rust
Puccinia striform
yellow leaf stripe
Arranged in stripes
Northern corn leaf blight
Cigar lesions
Southern Corn leaf blight
Small lesions
Fusarium head blight or Fusium head scab of wheat
discolored half of the head
Produces vomitoxin
Sudden death syndrome
Yellow surrounding lesions
Septoria leaf blight
Small brown spots on leaves
Produces Pyendium - filled w/ asexual spores/conidia
Brown Stem rot
Stem - brown; looks like SDS
Fusarium stalk rot
Bottom - mycelium
Fusarium ear rot
Indicidual Kernels
Penicillium ear rot
Green/dark mold at top