Figure 14.

Ear of a highly susceptible genotype. At the bottom, normal green-colored, full sized grain, even the head axis is damaged to some extent. One spikelet higher, the grain starts to show early ripening discoloration, but it is still full size. The next spikelet is infected, the green color covered by mycelium, and shriveled. The next spikelet is light brown close to waxy ripening. Thereafter, there are four strongly infected spikelets with massive mycelium coverage, then, two infected grains similar to the second one from the bottom, and at the top three strongly shriveled, but bleached normal colored, not directly infected, grains.