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Bunt, or stinking
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Causal organism - Septoria nodorum (Stagonospora nodorum)
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Like the Fusarium species, Septoria nodorum can survive between crops either on seed or on plant debris. While trash-borne inoculum is usually more important in initiating the later phases of the disease (leaf spot and glume blotch), fungus carried on the seed is more likely to be responsible for septoria seedling blight .
