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Cercospora zeae-maydis infested corn debris.
This is the means by which the pathogen over-winters. This infested debris
serves as the source for primary inoculum to initiate gray leaf spot in the next crop season.

Photograph courtesy Erik L. Stromberg
Department of Plant Pathology, Physiology and Weed Science
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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