Progress in understanding rapid blight of cool season turf
January 1, 2003
Bottom line: Since 1995, when it was discovered in PACE’s laboratory to be a new pathogen of cool season turf, the identity of the disease that came to be known as rapid blight was hard to pin down, with some experts identifying it as a primitive chytridiomycete fungus and others as a protozoan. Success was finally achieved in March, 2003, when the laboratories of Dr. Mary Olsen and Dr. Robert Gilbertson confirmed that rapid blight is caused by an obscure…