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It causes downy mildew on a vast number of cereal crops including oats, rice, maize, and wheat as well as varieties of turf grass. [1] The common names of the diseases associated with Sclerophthora macrospora include "crazy top disease" on maize [ 2 ] and yellow tuft disease on turf grass. [ 3 ]
The oat (Avena sativa), sometimes called the common oat, is a species of cereal grain grown for its seed, which is known by the same name (usually in the plural). Oats appear to have been domesticated as a secondary crop, as their seeds resembled those of other cereals closely enough for them to be included by early cultivators.
Cochliobolus victoriae is a fungus that causes Victoria blight in oats. Symptoms include stem weakening, seedling death, leaf damage, and premature ripening of seeds. [ 1 ] Other symptoms include basal necrosis and foliar striping, which begins at the lower leaves and proceeds upwards.
Fungal diseases; Anthracnose Colletotrichum graminicola. Glomerella graminicola [teleomorph]: Blast Unfavorable environmental conditions and/or any of several pathogens
The chemical, which is the active ingredient in the weed killer Roundup, can allegedly cause cancer. The oat products tested were made by General Mills, including several Cheerios varieties and ...
This species and other wild oats can become troublesome in prairie agriculture when it invades and lowers the quality of a field crop, or competes for resources with the crop plants. It takes very few wild oat plants to cause a significant reduction in the yield of a wheat or cultivated oat field. [5] [6]
Northern sea oats (also known as river oats), is an ornamental grass that offers quite a display year-round, but particularly during the winter season. The grass grows in clumps two to three feet ...
Claviceps purpurea is an ergot fungus that grows on the ears of rye and related cereal and forage plants. Consumption of grains or seeds contaminated with the survival structure of this fungus, the ergot sclerotium, can cause ergotism in humans and other mammals.