Blast Diseases with Global Significance (IMAGE)
Caption
B, Sporulating lesion on a rice leaf. C, Sporulating lesions on a wheat leaf. D, Rice panicle neck infections block all grain filling above the infection points (red arrows). E, Wheat spike blast with individual directly infected spikelets. F, Wheat rachis infections kill all spikelets above the infection points. Removed spikelets show stem infection points (red arrows) with gray sporulation. G, Finger millet neck infection (red arrow) kills all fingers on the seed head. H, Leaf lesions on perennial ryegrass showing white lesion centers after spore release.
Credit
B and D to H, Reproduced with permission from Valent et al. [2020]—© The American Phytopathological Society. C, courtesy J. Toledo—reproduced with permission.)
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