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Practices Pesticides
Covered smut of barley is known to occur wherever barley is grown. It is most characteristically recognized by the semi-persistent membrane that covers the smutted spikelets, unlike loose smut of barley. The pathogen survives a teliospores (resting spores) on seed or in infested soil for long periods of time. Infection occurs as the seedlings emerges from the sprouting seed and is favored by cool soil temperatures (50-56 F). The fungus enters the young seedling and grows systemically with the growing point of the developing barley plant. In smut infected plants a smutted head emerge rather than a flowering barley head. The membrane covering the smutted tissues keeps the smut spores (teliospores) from being dispersed until harvest.
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