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By Peter H. Dernoeden (2000). Creeping Bentgrass Management presents a difficult management problem throughout the summer season. This complex dilemma is related to numerous and often interrelated factors such as: extreme air and soil temperatures, drought or excessively wet soils, dense thatch or organic mats, mechanical and other physical stresses, improper management practices, the misuse of chemicals, and other physical stresses.

The goal of this useful manual—complete with helpful color photographs—is to give golf course superintendents practical tools to better understand the many stress factors that contribute to the creeping bentgrass decline complex. It will help you pinpoint problems, and implement cultural and chemical solutions to maintain the integrity of your course.

CONTENTS:
1. MANAGING CREEPING BENTGRASS PUTTING GREENS FOR SUMMER STRESSES. The Nature of Summer Stresses. Cultural Practices for Summer Stressed Greens. Mowing. Grooming, Topdressing, and Rolling. Aeration Practices. Irrigation Practices. Summer Fertilization and Soil pH. Surface and Subsurface Drainage. Pesticides. 2. SELECTED STRESSES AND MALADIES OF CREEPING BENTGRASS. Shade. Some Causes for Yellow or Chlorotic Putting Greens. Red or Purplish Putting Greens in Winter and Spring. Bentgrass Collar Decline. Phytotoxic Effects of Fungicides and Interaction with Plant Growth Regulators. Summer Bentgrass Decline Complex. Phthium-Induced Root Dysfunction of Creeping Bentgrass. Basal Rot and Foliar Blight Anthracnose. Bentgrass Dead Spot. Take-All. Plant-Parasitic Nematodes. Senectopathic Disorders. Fairy Rings. Superficial Fairy Ring. Localized Dry Spots. Algae. Moss. Black Layer. 3. BIOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO TURF DISEASE MANAGEMENT. Organic Fertilizers and Amendments. Biological Inoculants. Mycoparasitism. Antagonism and Competition. Triggering Natural Defenses. Genetic Transformation. 4. THE NEW GENERATION OF FUNGICIDES OF MICROBIAL ORIGIN. Azoxystrobin. Trifloxystrobin. Fludioxonil. Polyoxins. 5. HERBICIDES FOR CREEPING BENTGRASS. Annual Grass Weed Control. Broadleaf Weed Control. Poa annua Control. Disease Specific to Annual Bluegrass and Biological Control. Bacterial Wilt. XPO = The Biological Agent. Nutsedge and Perennial Ryegrass Control. Perennial Ryegrass Control. Roughstalk Bluegrass Control. Dealing with Soil Residues of Herbicides. 6. USE OF PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS (PGRs) ON GOLF COURSES. Annual Bluegrass Suppression and Maintenance with PGRs. Annual Bluegrass Seedhead Suppression. Other Benefits of Type II PGRs. Overseeding and Plant Growth Regulators. Bibliography. Index. Acknowledgements.