The Impacts of the Southern Corn Leaf Blight Epidemics of 1970–1971

A review of the impacts of the southern corn leaf blight epidemics of 1970 and 1971. The companion cites it for the male-sterile cytoplasm in most U.S. hybrid corn that let one fungal race destroy about 15% of the 1970 crop. Shared base models create a similar monoculture, and the diversity that would protect lineages from contagion would also protect them from control.

Cited in

the companion paper (Companion §4)

Used for

Niches (monoculture); food web (§4)

Strand

Domestication, invasion & eradication · Eradication, control & irreversibility

Cite

@article{ullstrup1972impacts,
  title = {The Impacts of the Southern Corn Leaf Blight Epidemics of 1970–1971},
  author = {A. J. Ullstrup},
  year = {1972},
  journal = {Annual Review of Phytopathology},
  doi = {10.1146/annurev.py.10.090172.000345},
}