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RedLeafSpot

Watch out for Leaf Spot

Autumn is the period when leaf spot can become prevalent. Dr Kate Entwistle offers some advice on diagnosis and prevention

in Consultancy - on 31/8/12

BrownPatch

New Disease Alert

Two newly emerging turf diseases, Rapid Blight and Brown Ring Patch, have recently been confirmed in samples received from golf courses in the UK and Ireland,...

in Industry News - on 18/5/12

Microscolex mature worms

Seen this earthworm

Dr David T. Jones, earthworm specialist, Natural History Museum, London, and Dr Kate Entwistle, Turfgrass Pathologist, The Turf Disease Centre, Hampshire,...

in Industry News - on 17/11/10

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Your Help Needed

Close-mown greens face a new menace. In the last few years a small, non-native earthworm called Microscolex phosphoreus has started appearing in golf greens...

in Consultancy - on 29/4/10

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You give me Fever!

Larvae of the Bibionidae - the St Mark’s Fly and the Fever Fly - cause damage to turf by feeding on the roots and reducing water and nutrient uptake. Dr...

in Consultancy - on 5/1/10

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Red turf

During the late spring and autumn months, patches of red/purple discolouration can develop on close mown turf, and the cause is often automatically regarded...

in Consultancy - on 30/7/09

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When it comes to disease identification, there is as much emphasis on you as the turf manager to provide appropriate turf samples for analysis as there...

in Consultancy - on 26/5/09

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Disease - by association

When I started to look at plant diseases in the early 1980s, I did what most people do and read the current textbooks and believed (somewhat naively) that...

in Consultancy - on 20/2/09

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Anthracnose - an update .

Anthracnose has increased in frequency and severity over the past ten years, both here in the UK and also in the USA. This article is intended to provide...

in Consultancy - on 5/12/08

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Plant Parasitic nematodes

Before we take a look at where we are today and what the future may hold with regard to plant parasitic nematodes, it's worth taking a quick look back...

in Consultancy - on 27/9/08

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Breaching plant defences

The visible symptoms of disease that develop on the sward are generally our initial indication that the turf has become infected by a pathogen. However,...

in Consultancy - on 23/7/08

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Diagnose diseases

Identifying the primary cause of turfgrass diseases has, arguably, become more difficult over recent years as we have become better able to identify differences...

in Consultancy - on 7/4/08

When did you last check your roots?

check your roots?

I am always on the look-out for research or general articles and text books that can help with my work or my understanding of turfgrass diseases and, to...

in Consultancy - on 7/12/07

Pathogen infection, How do they attack?

Pathogen infections

Pathogens are organisms that have the ability to cause disease and, when we think of turfgrass disease, we automatically think of fungi as the causal pathogens...

in Consultancy - on 2/10/07

Analysis – getting the most out of it

Physical analyses are of critical importance when sourcing materials for a new construction, or for reconstructions, to ensure the consistency of the materials...

in Consultancy - on 15/7/07

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Rust Diseases

Rust is a collective term that is commonly used to describe a group of turfgrass diseases, each of which is characterised by the prolific production of...

in Consultancy - on 29/11/06

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Cutworms

Cutworms are moth caterpillars that have occasionally been seen over recent years on amenity turfgrass areas across the UK.

in Consultancy - on 28/11/06

leafspot symptoms

There are a wide range of fungi that cause leaf spot disease on amenity turfgrasses and these individual fungi will cause damage to different grass types...

in Consultancy - on 4/10/06

Dollar Spot Disease

Dollar Spot Disease

Dollar spot is a fungal disease that appears to be increasing in occurrence across the UK. Historically in the UK, dollar spot has been recorded as a...

in Training & Education - on 16/7/06

Nematodes

Nematodes

Nematodes are a large and diverse group of non-segmented, microscopic roundworms that can inhabit both the rootzone and the turfgrass plants themselves....

in Training & Education - on 15/7/06


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