Biological management of turfgrass pathogens
June 16, 2023
A new document by Dr. Joseph Roberts and Joseph Doherty at Clemson University provides information about a topic many turf managers are interested in: biological control.
The document, Limitations and adoption strategies for biological management of turfgrass pathogens, explains many of the challenges of biological control. Take the addition of bacteria, for example.
Roberts and Doherty write that "A few calculations relating the discrepancy between the size of native microbial communities and applied biological control can put this into perspective.…