Alphabetical Listing of
Montana Wheat Diseases

A
Agropyron mosaic

Anthracnose

Ascochyta leaf spot

Aster yellows

B
Bacterial leaf blight

Bare patch (Rhizoctonia root rot)

Barley yellow dwarf

Basal glume rot

Black point (Kernel smudge)

Black chaff

Black sooty head mold

C
Cephalosporium stripe

Cereal cyst nematode

Common root, crown, and foot rot (Common root rot)

Common bunt (Stinking smut)

Crinkle joint

Cut worm

D
Deep planting

Downy mildew (Crazy top)

Drought injury

Dry seed decay

Dryland root, crown, and foot rot (Fusarium foot rot)

Dwarf bunt (TCK)

E
Ergot

F
Flag smut

Flame chlorosis

Foot rot (Eyespot, Strawbreaker)

Frost injury

Fusarium scab (Head blight)

G
Grass cyst nematode

H
Hail injury

Heat canker

High Plains disease

I

J

K

L
Late seeding winter wheat

Late seeding spring wheat

Leaf rust

Leptosphaeria leaf spot

Loose smut

M
Melanism (Purple stems)

N
Nitrogen deficiency

O
Oat blue dwarf virus

P
Phenoxy herbicide injury

Phosphorus deficiency

Physiologic leaf spot (Pinto spot)

Pink snow mold

Powdery mildew

Pythium root rot

Q

R
Replant considerations

Root-gall nematode

Root-knot nematode

Root lesion nematode

S
Salt damage

Sandblasting

Sawfly

Sclerotinia snow mold

Seed gall nematode

Septoria leaf and glume blotch

Sharp eyespot

Sleepy wheat (Dicamba wilt)

Snow rot

Soil crusting

Soil compaction

Soilborne wheat mosaic

Speckled leaf blotch

Spot blotch

Stem nematode

Stem rust (Black rust)

Storage molds

Stripe rust

Stubby root nematode

Stunt nematode

Sulfur deficiency

T
Take-all

Tan spot

Temperature banding

Typhula blight (Speckled snow mold)

U

V

W
Wet soil or weather stress

Wheat stem maggot

Wheat curl mite

Wheat streak mosaic

Wind injury

Winterkill

X

Y

Z