Use fungicidal seed treatment to reduce seedling blight. Use crop rotation. Clean and condition black-pointed seed and discard shriveled seed. Bury crop refuse by tillage to reduce chance of fungal spores splashing to the head. Tips of glumes have either a bleached to greyish appearance or a brownish discoloration.
Infected awns exhibit brown spotting.
Small fruiting bodies may be evident in glume tips. Grain is very shriveled. Survival and Spread. Survives on infected straw and stubble and on seed. Spread by airborne spores and splashing rain.