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The chart titled "Curative Suppression of Dollar Spot with Fungicides" from NC State University displays the percentage of dollar spot per plot over time, from May 13 to May 31. It compares six treatments: Secure, Maxima, Posterity, Daconil Ultrex, Chipco

What Is a Fungicide? That Is the Question!

I love the saying that Spring comes in like a lion and leaves like a lamb. It says we have no earthly idea what Spring holds for us. But by the end of Spring, all will be okay unless summer shows up…

Patchy brown lawn with scattered green grass and a concrete walkway visible at the top

The Blues Brothers: Warm-Season Lawns in NC

Zoysiagrass rejoins with its brother centipedegrass after being released from winter dormancy, but the duo has just days to reunite their stolons and rhizomes and save the home lawn where the two…

Flagstick casting shadow on a golf green with distant cart and sand bunker

Fungicides "Not Working"? - Not So Fast!

Turf diseases are a change in structure and/or function of the plant caused by the continuous irritation of a pathogen that results in the production of symptoms. This is not to remind anyone of the…

2019 Diagnostics Lab Review

Overall, total turfgrass samples submitted in 2019 to the NC State Turf Diagnostics Lab were nearly identical to total samples submitted in 2018 and only a few samples above our 10-year average. As…

Six labeled pots with small grass clumps in sand, labels: Gg, Gx, Ggram, Cc, Mc, NTC

Take-All Root Rot: A Complex Disease

Written by Cameron Stephens, a Ph.D. student co-advised by Dr. Jim Kerns and Dr. Travis GannonTake-all root rot (TARR) is a disease of ultradwarf hybrid bermudagrass maintained at < 0.2” (5mm) for…

Spring dead spot symptoms in a bermudagrass landscape setting.

Fall Into Warm-Season Disease Prevention

It's September 12th (still officially summer) and current weather patterns agree with forecasted highs in the upper 80's/lower 90's. The fall cool-down should be around the corner and those with…