So THAT'S why we called it rapid blight
October 13, 2008
Diseases have a perverse habit of conducting their rampages over the weekend, when they are least likely to be noticed. As we have unfortunately seen countless times before, a poa green that looked only slightly under the weather during the week, greeted the superintendent with the depressing scene shown here, first thing Monday morning.
The culprit in this case was rapid blight, which is caused by Labyrinthula terrestris (for a summary of the history and biology of this disease, read…