Soil temperatures, turf diseases, and threat temperature

There's a new post about soil temperatures and turf diseases by Dr. Jim Kerns and Lee Butler at NC State University: Why should you love soil temperatures when when managing bermudagrass diseases?

They write about a suite of diseases, that "the key to all of these is watching soil temperatures! There are three things that govern disease severity: the pathogen, the host, and the environment with, in our opinion, the environment as the most important factor."

The article discusses Take-all…