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Periconia circinata (milo disease of sorghum )
Periconia circinata
milo disease of sorghum
Aspergillus circinatus
China, South Africa, Tanzania ,Czech Republic, France, Australia, Romania, United Kingdom
AR, CA, KS, MS, NE, NM, OK, TX
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fungus
Korea, Mexico
Primarily sorghum, though reported on many small grains and grasses (Farr and Rossman, 2016)
PERCCI
1 Known Hosts
Sorghum bicolor
sorghum
No
PERCCI-2,PERCCI-4
Transmission is essentially soilborne . One reference found where this pathogen was reported on seed in the laboratory, but no other reports found and no evidence of seed being a natural pathway found.
PERCCI-2
Odvody GN, Dunkle LD, Edmunds LK, 1977. Characterization of the Periconia circinata population in a milo disease nursery. Phytopathology, 67:1485-1489
PERCCI-4
Hansing ED, Hartley A, 1962. Sorghum seed fungi and their control. Proceedings of the Associaition of Official Seed Analysts, 52:143-148.
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