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| Introduction to Turfgrass Diseases. | |
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| Causes of Turfgrass Diseases | |
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| Importance of Turfgrass Diseases | |
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| Identifying Turfgrass Diseases | |
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| Koch's Postulates | |
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| Taking Samples | |
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| Interpreting Research | |
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| Disease Management | |
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| Color Plates. | |
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| Fungal Diseases of Turfgrass, I: Diseases Primarily Occurring on Golf Course Turfs. | |
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| Foliar Anthracnose | |
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| Crown Rotting Anthracnose | |
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| Brown Patch | |
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| Dollar Spot | |
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| Pythium Blight | |
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| Copper Spot | |
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| Yellow Tuft | |
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| Gray Leaf Spot | |
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| Fungal Diseases of Turfgrass, II: Diseases Primarily of Home Lawns and General Turfs. | |
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| The Helminthosporium Diseases | |
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| Melting-Out | |
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| Leaf Spot | |
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| Net-Blotch | |
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| Brown Blight | |
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| Leaf Blotch | |
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| Red Leaf Spot | |
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| Fading-Out | |
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| Powdery Mildew | |
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| Red Thread | |
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| Fairy Rings | |
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| Slime Mold | |
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| Fungal Diseases of Turfgrass, III: Disease Complexes. | |
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| The Patch Diseases | |
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| Bermudagrass Decline | |
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| Spring Dead Spot | |
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| Necrotic Ring Spot | |
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| Summer Patch | |
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| Take-All Patch | |
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| Pink Patch | |
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| The Snow Molds | |
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| Typhula Blight Gray Snow Mold | |
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| Microdochium Patch | |
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| Other Snow Molds | |
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| The Smuts | |
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| Flag Smut and Stripe Smut | |
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| The Rusts | |
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| Bacterial, Mycoplasmal, Nematode Diseases of Turfgrass, and the Black Layer. | |
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| Bacterial Disease | |
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| Bacterial Wilt | |
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| Viral and Mycoplasmal Diseases | |
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| Nematodes | |
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| Yellow Blight | |
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| Specific Nematodes | |
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| Resistant Cultivars | |
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| The Black Layer | |
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| The Role of Sulfur | |
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| Myths of Sulfur and pH Reduction | |
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| Fungicides. | |
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| Generic Names, Chemical Formulas, and Trade Names | |
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| Systemic and Nonsystemic Contact or Surface) Fungicides | |
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| Pesticides and Human Medicines | |
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| Safe Handling of Fungicides | |
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| Criteria for Selecting a Fungicide | |
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| Calculations to Save You Money | |
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| Fungicide Resistance. | |
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| Resistance to Fungicides | |
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| Fungicide Factor | |
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| Fungal Factor | |
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| Theories for Preventing or Delaying Resistance | |
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| Commonly Accepted Strategies to Prevent or Delay Resistance | |
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| Strategies to Prevent or Delay Resistance to DMI Fungicides | |
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| New Strategies to Delay or Prevent Resistance | |
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| Cultural Aspects of Turfgrass Disease Management. | |
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| Soil Fertility | |
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| Nitrogen | |
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| Phosphorus and Potassium | |
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| Sulfur | |
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| Iron | |
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| Soil pH | |
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| Irrigation | |
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| Drainage | |
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| Mowing | |
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| Height of Cut | |
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| Frequency | |
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| Clippings | |
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| Collecting Grass Clippings to Prevent Thatch | |
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| Does Thatch Cause Disease? | |
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| Disease Management by Mowing | |
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| Rolling | |
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| Aerification | |
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| Hollow Tine | |
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| Solid Tine | |
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| Deep Tine | |
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| Water Injection | |
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| Timing | |
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| Using Disease Resistance in Turfgrass Management. | |
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| Mixtures and Blends | |
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| Blends vs. Single Cultivars | |
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| "Super" Blends | |
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| Should Blends Include a Common Type? | |
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| Horizontal and Vertical Resistance | |
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| Melting-Out | |
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| Stripe Smut | |
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| High Maintenance Turf | |
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| The Cool-Season Grasses: A Plant Pathologist's Point of View. | |
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| Cultivar Evaluations | |
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| The Bentgrasses | |
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| Creeping Bentgrass | |
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| Colonial Bentgrass | |
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| Velvet Bentgrass | |
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| The Bluegrasses | |
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| Kentucky Bluegrass | |
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| Annual Bluegrass | |
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| Poa Trivialis | |
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| The Fescues | |
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| Tall Fescue | |
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| The Fine-Leaf Fescues | |
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| Meadow Fescue | |
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| The Ryegrasses | |
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| The Warm-Season Grasses: A Plant Pathologist's Point of View. | |
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| The Zoysiagrasses | |
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| Centipedegrass | |
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| Buffalograss | |
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| St. Augustinegrass | |
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| Bermudagrass | |
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| Paspalum vaginatum | |
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| Other Problems of Warm-Season Turfgrasses | |
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| Disease Management Strategies for Golf Courses-Cool Season. | |
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| Cool-Season Grasses: Greens | |
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| The Bentgrasses | |
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| Annual Bluegrass | |
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| Cool-Season Grasses: Tees | |
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| Suggested Species | |
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| Cultural Programs | |
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| Cool-Season Grasses: Fairways | |
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| The Bentgrasses | |
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| Annual Bluegrass | |
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| The Fine-Leaf Fescues | |
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| Perennial Ryegrass | |
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| Disease Management Strategies for Golf Courses - Warm Season. | |
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| Warm-Season Grasses: Winter Overseeding | |
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| Warm-Season Grasses: Greens | |
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| Creeping Bentgrass | |
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| Bermudagrass | |
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| Paspalum vaginatum | |
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| Warm-Season Grasses: Tees | |
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| Bermudagrass | |
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| Zoysiagrass | |
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| Warm-Season Grasses: Fairways | |
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| Bermudagrass | |
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| Zoysiagrass | |
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| Buffalograss | |
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| Kikuyugrass | |
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| Disease Management Strategies for Home-Lawn Grasses. | |
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| Cool-Season Grasses | |
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| The Kentucky Bluegrasses | |
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| Fine-Leaf Fescues | |
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| Perennial Ryegrasses | |
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| Creeping Bentgrass | |
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| Tall Fescue | |
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| Rough Bluegrass | |
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| Zoysiagrass | |
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| Warm-Season Grasses | |
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| Bermudagrass | |
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| St. Augustinegrass | |
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| Zoysiagrass | |
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| Centipedegrass and Bahiagrass | |
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| Appendix: Guide for the Control of Turfgrass Diseases | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |