Managing Turfgrass Pests, Second Edition
By Thomas L. Watschke, Peter H. Dernoeden, David J. Shetlar
To Be Published January 15th 2013 by CRC Press – 400 pages
Description
Reflecting recent research, this book provides a reliable management guide to all major weed problems in turfgrass used on lawns, athletic fields, and golf courses in the U.S. and worldwide. This second edition provides the latest information on turf weed management as well as new problems resulting from different cultural practices that are now being imposed on various turfgrass systems. It also discusses the strengths and weaknesses of newly commercialized herbicides as well as their efficacy based on field research. The text presents practical approaches to cultural, biological, and chemical control of weeds and describes all herbicides and plant growth regulators labeled for use on turf.
Contents
Introduction
Monitoring Disease
Relationship of Environmental Conditions and Cultural Practices to Disease
Biological Control of Turfgrass Diseases
Winter and Early Spring Diseases
Microdochium Patch, Fusarium Patch or Pink Snow Mold
Typhula Blight or Gray Snow Mold
Yellow Patch or Cool Temperature Brown Patch
Pythium Snow Blight or Low Temperature Pythium
Diseases Initiated in Autumn or Spring That May Persist Into Summer
Red Thread and Pink Patch
Waitea Patch
Drechslera and Bipolaris Leaf Spot, Melting-Out, and Net-blotch
Take-All Patch
Necrotic Ring Spot
Spring Dead Spot
Large Patch of Zoysiagrass
Pythium Incited Root Diseases
Dollar Spot
Stripe Smut and Flag Smut
Powdery Mildew
Anthracnose
Ascochyta and Leptosphaerulina Leaf Blight
Yellow Tuft or Downy Mildew
Diseases Initiated During Summer That May Persist Into Autumn
Dead Spot
Bermudagrass Decline
Brown Patch or Rhizoctonia Blight
Pythium Blight
Summer Patch
Southern Blight
Bipolaris and Drechslera Leaf Spot, Melting-Out, Net-blotch and Red Leaf Spot
Nigrospora Blight
Copper Spot
Fairy Ring
Superficial Fairy Ring
Localized Dry Spot
Yellow Ring
Gray Leaf Spot
White Blight
Slime Mold
Rust
Seedling Diseases and Damping-Off
Virus Diseases
Bacterial Diseases
Plant Parasitic Nematodes
Blue-Green Algae, Moss and Black-Layer
Collecting and Sending Diseased Samples
Factors Associated With Fungicide Use
Fungicide Use in Lawn Care
Fungicide Use on Golf Courses
Types of Fungicides
Fungicide Application
Author Bio
Thomas L. Watschke is Professor Emeritus of Turfgrass Science at The Pennsylvania State University.
Peter H. Dernoeden is with the Department of Plant Science & Landscape Architecture at the University of Maryland, College Park.
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