DISEASE: Black chaff (Bacterial leaf streak)
HOST: Barley
Black chaff is characterized by water-soaked and darkened glumes on barley heads and streaks and stripes on leaves.

Black chaff (Bacterial leaf streak) | Barley
DISEASE: Black chaff (Bacterial leaf streak)
HOST: Barley (Hordeum vulgare)
PATHOGEN: Xanthomonas translucens pv. undulosa
SOURCE: S. Thomson
DISEASE: Black chaff (Bacterial leaf streak)
HOST: Barley
Leaf with linear, water-soaked lesions that turn necrotic and brown. Flakes of dry bacterial exudate are apparent on the lesions. The pathogen also causes black glume of barley.

Black chaff (Bacterial leaf streak) | Barley
DISEASE: Black chaff (Bacterial leaf streak)
HOST: Barley (Hordeum vulgare)
PATHOGEN: Xanthomonas translucens pv. undulosa
SOURCE: S. Thomson
DISEASE: Black chaff (Bacterial leaf streak)
HOST: Wheat
Water-soaked stage of leaf streak.

Black chaff (Bacterial leaf streak) | Wheat
DISEASE: Black chaff (Bacterial leaf streak)
HOST: Wheat (Triticum aestivum)
PATHOGEN: Xanthomonas translucens pv. undulosa
SOURCE: S. Thomson
DISEASE: Black chaff (Bacterial leaf streak)
HOST: Wheat
Interveinal brown streaks and blotches on wheat leaves, a late stage of disease. Symptoms may be confused with other diseases.

Black chaff (Bacterial leaf streak) | Wheat
DISEASE: Black chaff (Bacterial leaf streak)
HOST: Wheat (Triticum aestivum)
PATHOGEN: Xanthomonas translucens pv. undulosa
SOURCE: R. Kilpatrick
DISEASE: Black chaff (Bacterial leaf streak)
HOST: Wheat
Brownish black streaks and blotches on glumes.

Black chaff (Bacterial leaf streak) | Wheat
DISEASE: Black chaff (Bacterial leaf streak)
HOST: Wheat (Triticum aestivum)
PATHOGEN: Xanthomonas translucens pv. undulosa
SOURCE: M. Boosalis
DISEASE: Black chaff (Bacterial leaf streak)
HOST: Wheat
Leaves with blighted leaf tips, and blades with brownish red streaks.

Black chaff (Bacterial leaf streak) | Wheat
DISEASE: Black chaff (Bacterial leaf streak)
HOST: Wheat (Triticum aestivum)
PATHOGEN: Xanthomonas translucens pv. undulosa
SOURCE: L. Claflin
DISEASE: Black chaff (Bacterial leaf streak)
HOST: Wheatgrass
Lesions on leaves first appear as water-soaked, translucent, long, narrow streaks. They later turn brown and necrotic and often coalesce into blighted areas.

Black chaff (Bacterial leaf streak) | Wheatgrass
DISEASE: Black chaff (Bacterial leaf streak)
HOST: Wheatgrass (Elytrigia intermedia)
PATHOGEN: Xanthomonas translucens pv. cerealis
SOURCE: S. Mohan
DISEASE: Black chaff (Bacterial leaf streak)
HOST: Wheatgrass
Close-up of leaf with brown necrotic streaks.

Black chaff (Bacterial leaf streak) | Wheatgrass
DISEASE: Black chaff (Bacterial leaf streak)
HOST: Wheatgrass (Elytrigia intermedia)
PATHOGEN: Xanthomonas translucens pv. cerealis
SOURCE: S. Mohan
DISEASE: Goss's bacterial wilt and blight
HOST: Corn (Maize)
Wilted, dying plants. Leaves have gray to light yellow stripes and irregular margins that follow leaf veins. Systemically infected plants usually have orange vascular bundles.

Goss's bacterial wilt and blight | Corn (Maize)
DISEASE: Goss's bacterial wilt and blight
HOST: Corn (Maize) (Zea mays)
PATHOGEN: Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. nebraskensis
PATHOGEN SYNONYM: Corynebacterium nebraskense
SOURCE: A. Vidaver