Solemn means someone or something serious, sincere or impressive. 1  An example of solemn is how someone's face looks when worried about a sick friend.
Symptoms of anthracnose are fairly common early in the season on lower leaves and later in the season on upper leaves. However, it is normally not an economic problem. Drift or contact from chemicals, such as paraquat or glyphosate, can also cause spots on corn leaves. Paraquat injury on corn. These spots can also be confused with holcus spot, but an obvious pattern should be visible throughout the field.
Corn smut is a fungus that grows on young maize. When the corn is in silk kernels become infected. They swell to golf-ball size galls and discolor. Loaded with soluble fiber, the amino acid lysine and the antioxidant anthocyanin, the moist young galls are collected two or three weeks after the corn becomes infected.