Leptosphaeria korrae, the causal agent of necrotic ring spot, is a destructive patch disease of Kentucky bluegrass. To develop a rapid molecular test for the detection of this pathogen, an assay based on the polymerase chain reaction was developed utilizing the internal transcribed spacer region 1 (ITS 1) of L. korrae ribosomal DNA. DNA sequence comparison showed 94.8% similarity of the ITS 1 r...