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Occasionally, corn planted after a cereal rye cover crop may have reduced yields. Proposed reasons for this yield decline include allelopathy, seedling disease, nitrogen immobilization and poor planter performance. In our lab, we are interested in understanding how seedling disease and allelopathy contribute to corn yield decline to develop best management practices for growing corn after a cereal rye cover crop. We will save the allelopathy story for another blog, and focus on seedling disease in this blog.