Ears and tassels may be replaced with smut sori filled with teliospores. Infected plants may develop bizarre symptoms on either the ear or the tassel, including the production of wire-like extensions of the vascular bundles in the tassel (pictured) or finger-like proliferations in the ear (pictured). Ears of infected plants may be recognized by their teardrop-shape and lack of silks where the husks are filled with teliospores (pictured).another to grain sorghums, sorgo, forage-sorghum hybrids, and some Sudangrass varieties. A hybrid of S. holci-sorghi has been identified that infects both corn and sorghums.