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NC State three-panel: turf "Cold Injury/Chloroplast Masking"; closeup "Purple Leaf Tip"; "Leaf spot"

Purple Bermudagrass Greens? Cold Weather Likely to Blame

This fall, the weather has been ideal for golf and mainly for reducing pathogen activity. Signs of mini-ring and take-all root rot are appearing on bermudagrass putting greens, but the pathogens were…

NC STATE UNIVERSITY; left: green turf surface; right: circular turf plug half brown half green

"Winter:30" for Maladies of Turfgrass

After the 4th warmest December on record, it is probably difficult to think about potential winter issues when most folks were still outside in short pants. However, seeing green grass and even some…

Grid of petri dishes with fungal colonies; rows labeled Gg1–Mc2, columns 50°F–95°F

Too Early for Take-All Root Rot Apps?

Written by Cameron Stephens, Ph.D. candidate under the direction of Dr. Jim Kerns and Dr. Travis GannonTake-all root rot (TARR) is a detrimental disease of highly maintained ultradwarf bermudagrass…

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…