A fungal disease (Zymoseptoria tritici) that produces irregular tan lesions studded with small black fruiting bodies on wheat leaves, and that is considered the most economically damaging foliar disease of wheat in Europe, where cool, wet climates favor it. It has repeatedly evolved resistance to major classes of fungicide, including the strobilurins during the 2000s, making fungicide resistance management, rather than simple spraying, a central part of modern wheat disease control in affected regions.
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Wheat, Crops Septoria leaf blotch (Zymoseptoria tritici) is one of the most economically important foliar diseases of wheat in Europe.
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Zymoseptoria tritici, synonyms Septoria tritici, Mycosphaerella graminicola, is a species of filamentous fungus, an ascomycete in the family Mycosphaerellaceae. It is a wheat plant pathogen causing septoria leaf blotch that is difficult to control due to resistance to multiple fungicides. The pathogen today causes one of the most important diseases of wheat.
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A fungal disease (Zymoseptoria tritici) that produces irregular tan lesions studded with small black fruiting bodies on wheat leaves, and that is considered the most economically damaging foliar disease of wheat in Europe, where cool, wet climates favor it.
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