Cercospora zeina is the causal agent of grey leaf spot disease of maize in southern Africa - Meisel, Barbara; Korsman, Jeanne; Kloppers, Frederik J.; Berger, Dave K. (European journal of plant pathology, 2009)
Keywords: Agriculture; Biological and medical sciences; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Cercospora; Cercospora zeae-maydis; Conidia; Corn; Crop diseases; Deoxyribonucleic acid; DNA; DNA fragmentation; DNA primers; Ecology; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Fungal plant pathogens; fungi; genes; grey leaf spot disease; histones; internal transcribed spacers; Leaves; Lesions; Life Sciences; pathogens; Phytopathology. Animal pests. Plant and forest protection; Plant Pathology; Plant Sciences; plantations; polymerase chain reaction; rapid methods; sequence alignment; South Africa; Zambia; Zea mays; Zimbabwe; Southern Africa; Africa; South Africa; Zimbabwe; Zambia; Koch’s postulates; Diagnostic species-specific PCR assay; Grey leaf spot; Maize; Monocotyledones; Plant pathology; Zea mays; Microbiology; Plant pathogen; Species specificity; Cereal crop; Fungi; Polymerase chain reaction; Cercospora zeina; Gramineae; Angiospermae; Spermatophyta; Fungi Imperfecti; Koch's postulates; Cercospora zeae-maydis