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An albino corn plant with no chlorophyll (left) beside a normal plant (right) In botany , chlorosis is a condition in which leaves produce insufficient chlorophyll . As chlorophyll is responsible for the green color of leaves, chlorotic leaves are pale, yellow, or yellow-white.
Corn grey leaf spot can be an extremely devastating disease as potential yield losses range from 5 to 40 US bushels per acre (440 to 3,480 L/ha). At higher disease levels, even greater losses can result. When a corn plant's ability to store and produce carbohydrates (glucose) in the grain is diminished, yield losses take place.
As the disease progresses, the lesions grow together and create large areas of dead leaf tissue. The lesions found in Northern corn leaf blight are more acute if the leaves above the ear are infected during or soon after flowering of the plant. [4] In susceptible corn hybrids, lesions are also found on the husk of ears or leaf sheaths.
Often, plants that have wilt symptoms also have leaf blight symptoms. [citation needed] The second, more common phase of the disease is the leaf blight phase, which occurs on the leaves at any vegetative growth stage. [3] At first, the leaf lesions appear long and irregularly shaped and are light green to yellow and later on, straw colored.
They begin as small, diamond-shaped lesions and elongate within the veins to become larger and rectangular. Race O's lesions remain within the leaves of the maize plant. [3] [6] Lesion size ranges from 2 to 6 millimeters wide and 3 to 22 millimeters long. [5] Lesions caused by Race T are tan with yellow-green or chlorotic halos.
Symptoms of nitrogen deficiencies in plants is general chlorosis of the leaves, which is when leaves turn pale green, and leaves cup upwards quite severely in deficient plants. [4] Nitrogen deficiencies also cause leaves to remain small, and drop prematurely, resulting in less photosynthesis occurring in the plant, and fewer, smaller tubers can ...
Young leaves, may experience chlorotic spotting which may eventually turn into a mosaic or mottle pattern (“Maize Dwarf Mosaic Virus,” n.d.). Later in the growing season, the mosaic pattern may bleed into a general yellowing of the leaf and eventually areas of red streaks or blotches may appear if night time temperatures are consistently ...
In the adult form, it eats leaves of many crops, including squash, cucumbers, soybeans, cotton, beans, and corn. Adult beetles lay eggs in the soil near a cucurbit plant. In a lifetime, females can lay between 150-400 eggs. However, there have been cases in which females have surpassed this quota, with some laying a total of 1,200 eggs. [7]