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Aug 22, 2023, 8:30 am106 ptsGrist
Nobody really knows how the fungus Bipolaris maydis got into the cornfields of the United States. But by summer of 1970, it was there with a vengeance, inflicting a disease called Southern corn leaf blight, which causes stalks to wither and die. The South got hit first, then the disease spread through Tennessee…
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