Cultivation and Fertility Practices Influence Hybrid Bermudagrass Recovery from Spring Dead Spot Damage

Spring Dead Spot Research Targets Better Control in Bermuda

Spring dead spot (SDS) is a major disease that affects bermudagrass in the United States and worldwide. Within the United States, the disease is most prevalent in the northern range of bermudagrass adaptation. Oklahoma State University and Kansas State University researchers are focusing their efforts on gaining a better understanding of the way bermudagrass is infected, with the ultimate goal ...

FIELD SCIENCE Combating spring By Lane Tredway and Lee Butler

• I ybrid bermndagrasses are excellent performers in athletic fields because of their uniformity, traction, and tolerance to heat and wear. Unfortunately, every turfgrass species has its weaknesses. Although resistant to most disease problems, bermudagrasses are highly susceptible to the fungal disease spring dead spot. This disease annually causes widespread damage to berrnudagrass in athletic...

Focal Spot, Spring 1995

Recovery of Salmonella from bermudagrass exposed to simulated wastewater.

Most confined swine (Sus scrofa) feeding operations in the southeastern United States hold manure in lagoons and apply effluent on bermudagrass [Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.] as fertilizer. Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica (ex Kauffman and Edwards) Le Minor and Popoff, has been reported in Mississippi lagoons, but levels and potential for contamination of bermudagrass were unknown. A laborato...

Defines Dead Spot More Clearly

In 1998, researchers at the University of Maryland discovered a new disease of creeping bentgrass caused by an unidentified species of Ophiosphaerella. Through morphological and molecular study, it was shown that the pathogen constituted a new species, Ophiosphaerella agrostis, and the disease was named bentgrass dead spot. Subsequently, O. agrostis was found in Texas and Florida causing dead s...