DISEASE: Black chaff (Bacterial leaf streak)
HOST: Barley
Black chaff is characterized by water-soaked and darkened glumes on barley heads and streaks and stripes on leaves.

Black chaff (Bacterial leaf streak) | Barley
DISEASE: Black chaff (Bacterial leaf streak)
HOST: Barley (Hordeum vulgare)
PATHOGEN: Xanthomonas translucens pv. undulosa
SOURCE: S. Thomson
DISEASE: Black chaff (Bacterial leaf streak)
HOST: Barley
Leaf with linear, water-soaked lesions that turn necrotic and brown. Flakes of dry bacterial exudate are apparent on the lesions. The pathogen also causes black glume of barley.

Black chaff (Bacterial leaf streak) | Barley
DISEASE: Black chaff (Bacterial leaf streak)
HOST: Barley (Hordeum vulgare)
PATHOGEN: Xanthomonas translucens pv. undulosa
SOURCE: S. Thomson
DISEASE: Black chaff (Bacterial leaf streak)
HOST: Wheatgrass
Lesions on leaves first appear as water-soaked, translucent, long, narrow streaks. They later turn brown and necrotic and often coalesce into blighted areas.

Black chaff (Bacterial leaf streak) | Wheatgrass
DISEASE: Black chaff (Bacterial leaf streak)
HOST: Wheatgrass (Elytrigia intermedia)
PATHOGEN: Xanthomonas translucens pv. cerealis
SOURCE: S. Mohan
DISEASE: Black chaff (Bacterial leaf streak)
HOST: Wheatgrass
Close-up of leaf with brown necrotic streaks.

Black chaff (Bacterial leaf streak) | Wheatgrass
DISEASE: Black chaff (Bacterial leaf streak)
HOST: Wheatgrass (Elytrigia intermedia)
PATHOGEN: Xanthomonas translucens pv. cerealis
SOURCE: S. Mohan