 These host plants include "Sorghum bicolor", or sorghum, "Sorghum sudanense", or Sudan grass, and "Sorghum palepense", or Johnsongrass.Its hosts also include "Pinnisetum glaucum", or pearl millet, and "Zea mays", or maize.When maize plants are infected as seedlings, the first symptom to appear is chlorosis of the leaves.