Characterization and virulence determination of Northern Corn Leaf Blight of Maize (Zea Mays L.). A Review

Abstract

The main intention of this literature survey is to review to characterize the causative agent of northern corn leaf blight disease, caused by Exserohilum turcicum (Leonard and Suggs). Samples were from infected fields were examined for the variability experiments, maize isolates of E. turcicum were used to characterize morphological, pathogenicity and cultural variation respectively. All of the isolates differed in terms of cultural and physical characteristics. The pathogenic variability tested showed that isolates classified as more, less or none aggressive among the isolates tested.