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Table 2. Cont<strong>in</strong>ued<br />

Common name Causal organism<br />

Target leaf spot Bipolaris sorghicola (Lefebvre & Sherw<strong>in</strong>)<br />

Shoem.<br />

Severity<br />

1<br />

5 Foliar<br />

MDMV Aphid-vectored virus 5 Systemic, foliar<br />

Downy Mildew Exserohilum turcicum (Pass.) Leonard &<br />

Suggs<br />

Bacterial leaf<br />

streak<br />

Bacterial leaf<br />

stripe<br />

Xanthomonas holcicola (Elliot) Starr &<br />

Burk<br />

5 Systemic<br />

5 Foliar<br />

Pseudomonas andropogoni (E.F.Sra.) Stapp 5 Foliar<br />

Rust Pucc<strong>in</strong>ia purpurea Cooke 5 Foliar<br />

Yellow stunt<br />

sorghum<br />

- 5 Systemic, foliar<br />

General symptom expression<br />

1. 1 = very severe, consistent annual occurrence, 2 = sporadically severe, <strong>in</strong>consistent annual occurrence,<br />

3 = occasional problem, not economically damag<strong>in</strong>g, 4 = m<strong>in</strong>or problem, 5 = rarely observed.<br />

and virus diseases are present. Losses are not<br />

significant although an unidentified root disease<br />

problem was reported <strong>in</strong> 1972 (Voight 1972).<br />

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of pathotypes of Peronosclerospora sorghi on<br />

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Craig, J., Frederiksen, R.A., Odvody, G.W., and<br />

Szerszen, J. 1987. Effects of herbicide antidotes<br />

on sorghum downy mildew. Phytopathology 77:<br />

1530-1532.<br />

Doupnik, Ben Jr. and Frederiksen, R.A. 1983.<br />

<strong>Diseases</strong> of Major Crops. Pages 525-534 <strong>in</strong> Dryland<br />

Agriculture. (Dregne, H.E., and Willis,<br />

W.O., eds.). Madison, WI, USA: American Society<br />

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Forbes, G., Coll<strong>in</strong>s, D., Odvody, G., and Frederiksen,<br />

R. 1983. Seedl<strong>in</strong>g disease <strong>in</strong> South Texas<br />

dur<strong>in</strong>g 1983. <strong>Sorghum</strong> Newsletter 26:124-125.<br />

Frederiksen, R.A. 1980a. <strong>Sorghum</strong> downy mildew<br />

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Plant Disease 64:903-908.<br />

Frederiksen, R.A. 1980b. <strong>Diseases</strong> of sorghum.<br />

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Frederiksen, R.A. (ed.) 1986. Compendium of<br />

<strong>Sorghum</strong> <strong>Diseases</strong>. St. Paul, MN, USA: American<br />

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Frederiksen, R.A., Rosenow, D.T., and Odvody,<br />

G.N. 1980. Bacterial diseases <strong>in</strong> Texas -1979. <strong>Sorghum</strong><br />

Newsletter 23:133.<br />

Jensen, S.G., Doupnik, Ben, Jr., Wysong, D. and<br />

Johnson, B. 1989. An epidemic of sorghum<br />

downy mildew <strong>in</strong> Nebraska <strong>in</strong> 1987. Plant Disease<br />

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Voight R.L. 1972. A potential new stra<strong>in</strong> of milo<br />

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