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Agricultural Research Service, Collaborating Scientists Tackling 'Tar Spot' Threat to U.S. Corn
October 26, 2021
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service issued the following news:

Helping farmers turn the tide on an emerging disease of corn called tar spot is the focus of a multi-organization team of scientists, including from the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) in West Lafayette, Indiana.

Caused by the fungus Phyllachora maydis, tar spot appears as black, roughly circular discolorations on the leaves, husks and stalks of . . .

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