Rapid blight takes more unexpected turns

Rapid blight continues to surprise us, this time with its appearance on Poa annua greens in Colorado soon after the snow had melted from a late-March, 2009 blizzard (Dr. Frank Wong, UC Riverside, and Dr. Anthony Koski and Ned Tisserat both at Colorado State University have made this new discovery, and are working on the problem). But this disease, caused by a unique organism known as Labyrinthula terrestris, has always surprised us, from the time Larry first discovered it in…