Claim · model-written summary
Hybrid maize has been experimentally infected.
- Interactor
- Sphacelotheca destruensSphacelotheca destruenst0pathogen
- Outcome
- experimentally infectede0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e0“Hybrid maize ( Zea mays ) has been experimentally infected (44: 2126).”
t0“Sphacelotheca destruens”
Title
Sphacelotheca destruens . [Descriptions of Fungi and Bacteria].
UK, CAB International; G. C. Ainsworth Descriptions of Fungi and Bacteria 1965. doi:10.1079/dfb/20056400072
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Observation Sphacelotheca destruens occurs on Panicum miliaceum and other Panicum species.
- Observation Echinochloa crus-galli is a host of Sphacelotheca destruens.
- Observation Sphacelotheca destruens causes head smut of common millet.
- Observation The disease is transmitted by seed contaminated with spores.
- Observation Spores remained viable for eight years.
- Observation The fungus is distributed across Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and the Americas.