Robertson Alison Robertson Professor of Plant Pathology and Microbiology Dr. Alison Robertson is an associate professor of plant pathology and microbiology. She provides ex, Alison, and Gary Munkvold. “Potential Disease Problems in Corn Following Corn.” Potential Disease Problems in Corn Following Corn | Integrated Crop Management, 2021, crops.extension.iastate.edu/encyclopedia/potential-disease-problems-corn-following-corn.
Due to environmental conditions corn is a crop that is vulnerable to infections by plant pathogens, that includes but is not limited to; seed rots and seedling blights that have been brought upon by fungal species, stalk rots, foliar diseases, and ear rots. The fungi that cause many of these diseases “survive in crop residue on the soil surface and also in the soil, and their populations will be higher in corn-on-corn fields. Thus, there is an increased risk of some of these diseases in corn-following-corn fields” Though they are fairly harmless in a large scale of the corn industry these fungi have the potential to spread to corn and as well as soybean plantations causing havok to the crops until contained.
This article goes over corn diseases that have a large potential of affecting the corn industry. These diseases are fungal species, stalk rots, foliar diseases, and ear rots. The article goes over each of the desises, their cause, and how it affects the corn, and how it spreads. Many of these diseases such as stalk rot and ear rot have similar causes (as in fungi spreading through soil). This article also explains how the environment can cause these diseases and how these diseases in turn hurt the environment. As previously stated these “plant pathogens” have a negative effect on the environment by killing off crops and having the potential to wreak havoc on corn plantations throughout all of the United States.
It is very interesting to see how different diseases formed from the environment. Is it possible that corn becomes “extinct” if the diseases don’t become controlled?
Thank you for your comment, it is very unlikely that any form of corn would become extinct due to these diseases because of the fact that corn is a very prominent crop, and that it is so widespread that even if it became extinct in one region it would still strive in another.
I did not know that there were that many things hindering corn production or farming. Can we potentially lose corn as a whole, or is there a way to control these factors?
It is very unlikely that we would lose corn to these problems because it is such a widespread crop, and due to the fact that once found it inst difficult to contain as long as it is in the early stages of infecting corn.