Severe Outbreak of Corn Lethal Necrosis Disease in Kansas. J. K. Uyemoto, Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University Agricultural Experiment Station, Manhattan, 66506. D. L. Bockelman, and L. E. Claflin, Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University Agricultural Experiment Station, Manhattan, 66506. Plant Dis. 64:99-100. Accepted for publication 1 March 1979. Copyright 1980 American Phytopathological Society. DOI: 10.1094/PD-64-99.

In 1978, corn lethal necrosis disease was epiphytotic in northwestern and north-central Kansas. Assays showed maize chlorotic mottle virus, maize dwarf mosaic virus A and B, and wheat streak mosaic virus, singly or in combinations.