Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Corn

What is corn smut?? What does it affect and what does it cause?

4 comments:

Abby said...

Corn smut is a disease of maize. It is caused by the pathogenic plant fungus Ustilago maydis. Although it can infect any part of the plant it usually enters the ovaries and replaces the normal kernels of the cobs with large distorted tumors analogous to mushrooms

kelseyr. said...

Corn smut is a disease of maize caused by the pathogenic plant fungus. I can infect any part of the plant, but it normally enters the overies. It is like black on the ear of the corn.

Rylee said...

corn smut is a disease from corn or maize. It is caused by a plant fungus. I tends to replace the kernels of cobs.

Anonymous said...

Its a diseas of Maize caused by pathogenic plant fungi. It infects anypart of the plant. It replaces the kernels of cobs.