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.
Common smut of corn, caused by Ustilago maydis, is easily identified by tumor-like galls that form on actively growing host tissues and contain masses of dark, sooty teliospores. Throughout most of the world, common smut is considered to be a troublesome disease of corn, but in central Mexico, galls on ears of corn are considered an edible delicacy known as cuitlacoche (Syn. huitlacoche).