Compendium of Turfgrass Diseases, Second Edition

softcover  128 pages, 186 color photos, 56 b+w photos and ill  ISBN 0890541248      £47.00

Now including facts on biological disease control and on fungi that cause patch disease.

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; Bipolar is 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