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Keywords: diseases, seed rot Pythium, seedling blight various fungi, Stewart’s bacterial wilt and leaf blight Erwinia stewartii, northern leaf blight Helminthosporium turcicum, southern leaf blight H. maydis, Helminthosporium leaf spot H. carbonum, yellow leaf blight Phyllosticta maydis, eyespot Kabatiella zeae, sorghum downy mildew Sclerospora sorghi, common rust Puccinia sorghi, southern rust P. polysora, brown spot Physoderma maydis, maize dwarf virus MDM virus, maize chlorotic dwarf MCD virus, diplodia stalk rot Diplodia maydis, Gibberella stalk rot Gibberella zeae, fusarium stalk rot Fusarium moniliforme, charcoal rot Macrophomina phaseolina, anthracnose Colletotrichum graminicola, common smut Ustilago maydis, head smut Spacelotheca reiliana, nematodes various

Chemical control with fungicides, nematicides, host plant resistance, crop rotations and related cultural practices, time of planting, low humidity seed storage, trap cropping, combinations of control practices