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).
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