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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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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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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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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
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
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
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
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
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
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