New information on white leaf pathogens

White leaf isn't a new pathogen, but it is starting to get a reputation. Golf courses in the Upper Midwest and Northeast have reported white leaf on bentgrass in the past few years — which is both bad and good. Any disease with no known control method, like white leaf, is bad for golf courses, but once white leaf gains the attention of researchers at major universities that have plant pathology departments with dedicated turfgrass researchers (e.g. University of Wisconsin,…