Description: Linear rows of small black fruiting bodies (pycnidia) on stems of plants and scattered over the surface of pods at or before harvest are signs of pod and stem blight.

Description: Phomopsis seed rot can be detected in harvested grain as badly cracked, shriveled and moldy seed.

Location: Pod and stem blight and Phomopsis seed rot occur throughout Ohio, but are more prevalent in the southern and western regions of the state.

Time of infection: The fungi that cause these diseases reside on residues or on seed. Infection occurs during pod formation, but symptoms do not develop until plants begin to mature and pods turn yellow. Under wet conditions that prevent timely harvest of the crop, the pod and stem blight fungi enter the developing seed and cause Phomopsis seed rot.

Management:
· Crop rotation
· Seed treatments
· Tillage