DISEASE: Bacterial foot rot
HOST: Rice
The disease causes sheaths to turn dark brown and rot; dead leaves droop. Nodes, culms, and crowns also decay, and infected tillers are easily detached from the crown. Culms and internodes turn black.

Bacterial foot rot | Rice
DISEASE: Bacterial foot rot
HOST: Rice (Oryza sativa)
PATHOGEN: Dickeya zeae
PATHOGEN SYNONYM: Erwinia chrysanthemi pv. zeae
SOURCE: M. Goto
DISEASE: Bacterial foot rot
HOST: Rice
Decayed culms (right) and healthy culms (left). Leaf sheaths of infected plants exhibit dark brown decay and attached leaves turn yellow and wilt.

Bacterial foot rot | Rice
DISEASE: Bacterial foot rot
HOST: Rice (Oryza sativa)
PATHOGEN: Dickeya zeae
PATHOGEN SYNONYM: Erwinia chrysanthemi pv. zeae
SOURCE: M. Goto
DISEASE: Bacterial leaf blight and stalk rot
HOST: Corn (Maize)
Corn husk leaves with brownish red streaks and blotches. The leaves turn brown but may later become gray or white. Symptoms vary depending upon genotype.

Bacterial leaf blight and stalk rot | Corn (Maize)
DISEASE: Bacterial leaf blight and stalk rot
HOST: Corn (Maize) (Zea mays)
PATHOGEN: Acidovorax avenae
PATHOGEN SYNONYM: Acidovorax avenae subsp. avenae
SOURCE: A. Alvarez
DISEASE: Bacterial leaf blight and stalk rot
HOST: Corn (Maize)
Leaves with whitish streaks.

Bacterial leaf blight and stalk rot | Corn (Maize)
DISEASE: Bacterial leaf blight and stalk rot
HOST: Corn (Maize) (Zea mays)
PATHOGEN: Acidovorax avenae
PATHOGEN SYNONYM: Acidovorax avenae subsp. avenae
SOURCE: R. Gitaitis
DISEASE: Bacterial leaf blight and stalk rot
HOST: Corn (Maize)
Lesions may vary from brown to red, sometimes gray or white, and some genotypes have red borders around lesions.

Bacterial leaf blight and stalk rot | Corn (Maize)
DISEASE: Bacterial leaf blight and stalk rot
HOST: Corn (Maize) (Zea mays)
PATHOGEN: Acidovorax avenae
PATHOGEN SYNONYM: Acidovorax avenae subsp. avenae
SOURCE: R. Gitaitis
DISEASE: Bunch disease
HOST: Hickory
Bunch disease of shagbark hickory caused by a phytoplasma.

Bunch disease | Hickory
DISEASE: Bunch disease
HOST: Hickory (Carya sp.)
PATHOGEN: 'Candidatus Phytoplasma' sp.
PATHOGEN SYNONYM: Phytoplasma (undefined)
SOURCE: P. Fenn
DISEASE: Bunch disease
HOST: Pecan
Pecan exhibiting bunch symptoms at ends of branches. This disease is thought to be caused by a phytoplasma similar to the walnut bunch pathogen in the X-disease group.

Bunch disease | Pecan
DISEASE: Bunch disease
HOST: Pecan (Carya illinoinensis)
PATHOGEN: 'Candidatus Phytoplasma pruni'
PATHOGEN SYNONYM: Phytoplasma X-disease group
SOURCE: W. Sinclair
DISEASE: Bunch disease
HOST: Pecan
Severe case of bunch disease. Note bunches of foliage.

Bunch disease | Pecan
DISEASE: Bunch disease
HOST: Pecan (Carya illinoinensis)
PATHOGEN: 'Candidatus Phytoplasma pruni'
PATHOGEN SYNONYM: Phytoplasma X-disease group
SOURCE: P. Bertrand