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sonal communication). This region of higher<br />

ra<strong>in</strong>fall (1200-1300 mm) encourages diseases<br />

such as anthracnose and fusarium head blight.<br />

The Gulf Coast region has a history of disease<br />

problems. Downy mildew, anthracnose, and<br />

gra<strong>in</strong> mold can be important <strong>in</strong> any year <strong>in</strong> this<br />

region. A major epidemic of sorghum downy<br />

mildew occurred <strong>in</strong> 1973 (Frederiksen 1980a).<br />

While the actual losses were not estimated, the<br />

gravity of the disease changed the genotypes of<br />

sorghum grown and downy mildew became an<br />

<strong>in</strong>timate part of the sorghum scientist's lexicon.<br />

Its appearance s<strong>in</strong>ce has been sporadic due <strong>in</strong><br />

part to the grow<strong>in</strong>g of susceptible hybrids, or<br />

the appearance of a new race (Craig and Fre-<br />

deriksen 1983) or the <strong>in</strong>teraction with herbicide<br />

antidotes (Craig et al. 1987). Occasionally, even<br />

seedl<strong>in</strong>g disease (Forbes et al. 1983) and bacterial<br />

diseases affect sorghum <strong>in</strong> the Gulf Coast<br />

area (Frederiksen et al. 1980). Head smut appears<br />

to be limited to the coastal and central<br />

<strong>Sorghum</strong>-grow<strong>in</strong>g regions of Texas. Foliar diseases,<br />

such as zonate leaf spot, gray leaf spot,<br />

ladder spot, and rough spot become more serious<br />

along the eastern coastal areas of the Gulf.<br />

In the Southeast, anthracnose rema<strong>in</strong>s the<br />

s<strong>in</strong>gle most important problem and is crop-limit<strong>in</strong>g<br />

<strong>in</strong> some years (Table 2). Many foliar diseases<br />

are present as are head blight and gra<strong>in</strong><br />

mold. In the western region, only root, stalk rot,<br />

Table 2. Prioritization of disease problems on sorghum <strong>in</strong> the southeastern region of the United<br />

States of America.<br />

Common name Causal organism<br />

Anthracnose Colletotrichum gram<strong>in</strong>icola (Cesati)<br />

Wilson<br />

Fusarium Fusarium moniliforme Sheldon and other<br />

species<br />

Gra<strong>in</strong> molds Fusarium, Alternaria, Curvularia,<br />

Cladosporium, Phoma, Helm<strong>in</strong>thosporium,<br />

Colletotrichum, others<br />

Severity<br />

1<br />

General symptom expression<br />

1 Attacks foliage, culms, panicle,<br />

seed. Lodg<strong>in</strong>g possibly four or<br />

five pathotypes.<br />

1 Panicle blight, culm rot, small<br />

seed, reduced germ<strong>in</strong>ation, old,<br />

seedl<strong>in</strong>g blight, lodg<strong>in</strong>g.<br />

2 Seed deterioration, reduced<br />

germ<strong>in</strong>ation.<br />

Charcoal rot Macrophom<strong>in</strong>a phaseol<strong>in</strong>a (Maulb.) Ashby 2 Basal culm rot, lodg<strong>in</strong>g<br />

Gray leaf spot Cercospora sorghi Ell. & Ev. 3 Foliar (leaf blades and sheaths)<br />

Ladder leaf spot Cercospora fusimaculans Atk. 3 Foliar<br />

Zonate leaf spot Gloeocercospora sorghi Bam & Edgerton 3 Foliar<br />

Rough leaf spot Ascochyta sorgh<strong>in</strong>a Sacc. 3 Foliar<br />

Leaf blight Peronosclerospora sorghi (Weston &<br />

Uppal) C.G.Shaw<br />

4 Foliar<br />

Pokkah boeng F. moniliforme var. subglut<strong>in</strong>ans 4 Systemic, abnormal growth<br />

Red spot Helm<strong>in</strong>thosporium rostratum Drechsler 4 Foliar-midve<strong>in</strong><br />

Acremonium wilt Acremonium strictum W. Gams 4 Culm, foliar<br />

Cont<strong>in</strong>ued<br />

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