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Septoria or Stagonospora blotch symptoms on wheat by CIMMYT

Septoria or Stagonospora blotch symptoms on wheat

Wheat leaf showing symptoms of a Septoria or Stagonospora blotch. Initial infection sites tend to be irregularly-shaped, oval to elongated chlorotic spots or lesions. As these sites expand, the centers of the lesions become pale, straw-colored, and slightly necrotic, often with numerous small black dots (pycnidia), as shown. Three different fungi cause blotch diseases: Stagonospora nodorum blotch is caused by Phaeosphaeria nodorum (anamorph Stagonospora nodorum, previously known as Septoria nodorum), Septoria tritici blotch is caused by Mycospharella graminicola (anamorph Septoria tritici), and Stagonospora avenae blotch is caused by Phaeosphaeria avenaria f.sp. triticae (anamorph Stagonospora avenae f. sp. triticea, previously known as Septoria avenae f.sp. tritici).

For more information, see CIMMYT's Wheat Doctor: wheatdoctor.cimmyt.org/index.php?option=com_content&t....

Photo credit: CIMMYT.

Stenocarpella ear rot on maize by CIMMYT

Stenocarpella ear rot on maize

Maize ear showing symptoms of Stenocarpella ear rot (caused by Stenocarpella maydis or Stenocarpella macrospora). Affected ears appear chaffy and bleached, with a white, cottony growth between the kernels. Late in the season, many small, black pycnidia form on kernels and cob tissues, as visible in the photo. These pycnidia serve as sources of inoculum for the following season’s crop.

For more information, see CIMMYT's Maize Doctor: maizedoctor.cimmyt.org/index.php?option=com_content&t....

Photo credit: CIMMYT.

picnidio (Anaptychia ciliaris) by laurha

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picnidio (Anaptychia ciliaris)

Aunque se parece al peritecio, pues también tiene forma de garrafa abierta por un poro apical y produce esporas, en realidad no tienen mucho que ver.
En el peritecio (y en los apotecios) se producen ascosporas meióticas, que sirven al hongo para reproducirse sexualmente. Son grandotas y relativamente escasas.
En el picnidio en cambio, el hongo produce esporas asexuales, parecidas a las que forman los típicos mohos del queso o de los cítricos. Las fabrican por miles y miles, y el resultado de su germinación es un clon de su progenitor (hijo y hermano a la vez, como leí hace poco). Son esporas muy pequeñitas, que se dispersan con una enorme facilidad y que respiramos constantemente.
Estas 2 formas de reproducción afectan exclusivamente al hongo, pero los líquenes también tienen formas de multiplicarse con hongo y alga a la vez...