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Because the corn plant needs little maintenance and is drought-tolerant, it can grow in a wide variety of soil types. It's a popular houseplant that can thrive indoors out of direct sunlight.
Dracaena fragrans (cornstalk dracaena), is a flowering plant species that is native throughout tropical Africa, from Sudan south to Mozambique, west to Côte d'Ivoire and southwest to Angola, growing in upland regions at 600–2,250 m (1,970–7,380 ft) altitude. [1] [2] It is also known as striped dracaena, compact dracaena, and corn plant.
Phyllachora maydis is a plant pathogen causing ascomycete diseases in maize/corn, and is more commonly referred to as tar spot. [1] [2] Identified by the distinctive development of stroma, this pathogen in itself is of little economic importance in the production of corn.
[2] [16] In sweet corn, reflective mulches can be an effective way to control D. maidis and the disease it vectors, compared to insecticides. [17] Mulching should be performed early in the plant's development to properly control this disease, as greater damage happens if the plant host is younger when infected with corn stunt disease.
A natural process often called "corn sweat" worsened a heat dome in the Midwest this week by fueling high humidity levels.
Southern corn leaf blight (SCLB) is a fungal disease of maize caused by the plant pathogen Bipolaris maydis (also known as Cochliobolus heterostrophus in its teleomorph state). The fungus is an Ascomycete and can use conidia or ascospores to infect. [ 1 ]
The tassel of a corn plant. Detasseling corn is removing the pollen-producing flowers, the tassel, from the tops of corn (maize) plants and placing them on the ground. It is a form of pollination control, [1] employed to cross-breed, or hybridize, two varieties of corn. Fields of corn that will be detasseled are planted with two varieties of corn.
Corn grey leaf spot can be an extremely devastating disease as potential yield losses range from 5 to 40 US bushels per acre (440 to 3,480 L/ha). At higher disease levels, even greater losses can result. When a corn plant's ability to store and produce carbohydrates (glucose) in the grain is diminished, yield losses take place.