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Infected plant
* appear bushy because of shortened internodes and small leaves
  - mildly chlorotic and have fewer tillers
  - ragged due to leaf fall and blight of the twigs
* appear stunted and contain excessive branching
  - lose their shiny green luster
  - wilted
  - stunted, sickly and yellow
  - yellow and stunted
* are bright yellow with considerable distortion of foliage and floral parts
  - chlorotic, stunted and have striped leaves
  - dwarfed, pale yellow and sickly
  - frequently barren, especially if infection is early
  - generally shorter and produce fewer stems and grains per head
  - hard to save
  - likely to wilt earlier under temperature or moisture stress
  - more sensitive to winter injury and drought stress
  - no longer able to supply adequate water to the foliage and the plant dies
* are slow growing with small leaves showing bronzed areas between the veins
  - to grow in the spring and often have a bronze cast
  - sterile and have numerous shoots at the base of the stalk
* are stunted, lose their shiny green luster, and produce few runners
  - shiny-green luster, and produce few runners
  - susceptible to winter-kill
  - toxic to herbivores and are more competitive than uninfected grasses
  - usually dwarfed and bunchy and yields are reduced
* become coated with a sticky fluid from the aphids
  - pale green, and lower leaves turn yellow and then brown
  - stunted and unthrifty, and are prone to wilting
  - stunted, and are very susceptible to winter kill
  - very yellow
* break over below the flowers.
* collapse and cause the grass in the blighted spots to appear matted.
* develop a gray mold on the lower leaf surface
  - spores, which are the seeds of the fungus
  - sterile or nearly sterile white heads with a few or no shriveled kernels
  - wilt symptoms on one or more runners, usually beginning at their tips
* die because water-conducting vessels in infected plants are blocked
  - early, often producing little or no fruit
  - out very quickly during dry weather
  - prematurely, generally within circular patches in the field
  - suddenly from mid-summer to fall
* elongate following spring, topped by bright yellow leaves.
* fail to flower or blossoms fall off before they open.
* flower prematurely and flower size is reduced.
* grow normally for a while, the wilt and die
  - slowly, producing numerous second- ary shoots
* have a bushy, distorted appearance
  - dark areas extending up the stem several inches from the soil line
  - higher concentrations of sodium and amino-nitrogen in the roots
  - lesions with white cottony growth near the base of the stem
  - small red or reddish-brown spots on stems, leaves, and flowers
  - smaller leaves and grow slowly
  - very little tap root
  - yellow leaves and are stunted
* lose their feeder roots and the vascular system of the taproot is darkened
  - vigor and gradually die
* produce a few dull, wrinkled peppers that ripen prematurely
  - distorted and sterile inflorescences
  - fewer viable seed
* produce infected seed and stubble where the spores overwinter
  - less grain, and the quality of the grain itself is lessened
  - spores that can be carried in moist air for up to several miles
* pull up easily, with roots and crowns breaking off due to rot.
* show a characteristic erectness of leaves about the stem
  - increased lateral rootlet development
  - symptoms of wilting and poor growth
* stand out in stark contrast, because they do indeed, turn white.
* stay green late in the fall.
* tend to produce fewer tillers with smaller and fewer seeds per head.
* turn a sickly yellow green and tend to wilt in the afternoons of hot and sunny days.
* turn yellow and are stunted
  - stop growing
* wilt and die very quickly
* wilt, turn yellow and are stunted.
* wither and die quickly.