By Richard W. Smiley, Peter H. Dernoeden, and Bruce B. Clarke THIS TITLE IS OUT OF PRINT. Now including facts on biological disease control and on fungi that cause patch disease. 1992; 8 1/2" x 11" softcover; 128 pages; 186 color photographs; 56 black and white photographs and illustrations ISBN 0-89054-124-8 Table of Contents Introduction; Grasses Managed as Turfs; Turfgrass Genera; Diseases and Their Causal Agents; Infectious Agents; Part 1: Noninfectious Agents; Biotic Agents of Noninfectious Diseases; Algae; Moss; Insects; Abiotic Agents of Noninfectious Diseases; Chemical Agents; Physical Agents; Mechanical Agents; Part 2: Infectious Diseases; Foliar Diseases; Ascochyta Leaf Blight; Brown Stripe; Cephalosporium Stripe; Cercospora Leaf Spot; Cladosporium Eyespot; Copper Spot (Zonate Leaf Spot); Dollar Spot; Downy Mildew (Yellow Tuft); Gray Leaf Spot (Blast); Leaf Blotch (Scald); Leaf Smuts; Leptosphaerulina Leaf Blight; Mastigosporium Leaf Spot; Phyllosticta Leaf Blight; Physoderma Leaf Spot and Leaf Streak; Pink Patch; Powdery Mildew; Pseudoseptoria Leaf Spot; Ramularia Leaf Spot; Red Thread; Rusts; Septoria and Stagonospora Leaf Spots; Snow Molds Coprinus Snow Mold; Snow Scald; Typhula Blight; Pink Snow Mold and Fusarium Patch; Spermospora Leaf Spot; Tar Spot; Diseases of Foliage and/or Roots; Anthracnose Diseases; Bipolaris and Exserohilum Diseases; Curvularia Diseases; Drechslera Diseases; Fusarium Diseases; Nigrospora Blight, Pythium Diseases, Rhizoctonia Diseases; Seedling Diseases; Southern Blight; Diseases of Roots; Bermudagrass Decline; Necrotic Ring Spot; Spring Dead Spot; Summer Patch; Take-All Patch; Part 3: Other Agents, Diseases, and Disorders; Bacterial and Mycoplasmal Diseases; Endophytic Fungi; Fairy Rings; Mycorrhizae; Nematode Diseases; Primitive Root Fungi, Slime Molds; Superficial Fairy Ring, Yellow Ring, and White Blight; Viral Diseases; Part 4: Ecology and Taxonomy of Pathogenic; Obligate Parasites; Facultative Saprophytes; Facultative Parasites; Obligate Saprophytes; Fungi and Their Environment; Pathogen Successions and Disease Complexes; Taxonomy of Fungi; Part 5: Disease Control Strategy; Seedbed and Seed, Spring, or Sod Sanitation; Disease-Resistant Species and Cultivars; Management of Turfgrass Climate and Culture; Chemical Control; Biological Control; Part 6: Disease Diagnosis; Step 1. Identify the Affected Grass Species; Step 2. Observe the Symptoms; Step 3. Observe the Environmental Conditions; Step 4. Identify Visible or Microscopic Signs of the Pathogens; Collection and Submission of Samples; Guide to Turfgrass Diseases and Disease Groups; Glossary; Index; Color Plates |
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