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Three growing problems specific to corn are lodging, smut fungi, and corn borers.

Sweet Swee't CORN: A different animal altogether than field corn, sweet corn is a favorite in the backyard garden, and once you grow a successful crop, there likely won't be any turning back

Teaching mycology in Latin America, Peipenbring noticed that all the textbooks were written by people in the Northern Hemisphere about the Northern Hemisphere, and decided to use her own experience and observations as a specialist of smut fungi to write one focusing on the tropics.

Introduction to Mycology in the Tropics

Now in a significantly updated and expanded third edition, "Illustrated Genera Of Smut Fungi" by Kalman Vanky is a spiral bound, 288 page compendium enhanced with 116 black-and-white illustrations and is justifiably considered the basic reference on Smut Fungi.

Illustrated Genera Of Smut Fungi

SMUT FUNGI OF THE WORLD provides an outstanding key to identifying smut fungi and packs over 3,500 monographs and studies into nearly 1,500 pages of reference material recommended for college-level botany and science reference collections.

The Botany Shelf

Smut fungi can infect many plant parts--including the grains or kernels--with these black spores.

Chapter 15: Plant disease and insects

GM maize has since provided human and animal health benefits by both reducing exposure to pesticides and reducing smut fungi infections in insect-damaged cobs.

Gaining ground: debating the growing impact of GM agriculture: over a decade since the first genetically modified crops were developed and grown, their environmental and production credentials are being better assessed as land area under GM crops expands. But the role of GM agriculture in the 21st century is still being fiercely debated

Abstract: This is the first publication dedicated to the diversity of smut fungi in Panama based on field work, the study of herbarium specimens, and references taken from literature.

Key words: Checklist, neotropics, Panama, smut fungi, Sponsorium panamensis, Tilletiales, Ustilaginales

Smut fungi (Ustilaginomycetes and Microbotryales, Basidiomycota) in Panama

At present, about 1,200 species of bunts are known worldwide," says Castlebury, whose specialty is bunt and smut fungi. "They occur worldwide and infect about 4,000 plant species in more than 75 flowering plant families.

UNMASKED

Biology and control of the smut fungi. Ronald, New York, New York, USA.

Impact of a pollinator-transmitted disease on reproduction in healthy Silene acaulis