Symptoms include stem weakening, seedling death, leaf damage, and premature ripening of seeds.

[1] Other symptoms include basal necrosis and foliar striping, which begins at the lower leaves and proceeds upwards.

[2] Conidiophores emerge from the stomata or epidermal cells of the diseased oat, usually in groups of two to five, and are a medium-brown color.

However, the same gene that grants crown rust resistance is also responsible for causing susceptibility to Victoria blight.

[5] Victoria type oats contain the Pc-2 gene which confers resistance against crown rust caused by the fungus Puccinia coronate.