Summer Disease Management Strategies

Pythium root rot: In 1994, we heard a lot about pythium root rot of turfgrasses and summer bentgrass decline. Later that year, a pythium root rot symposium at the American Phytopathological Society annual meeting revealed that there is no consensus within the research community that pythium root rots are a serious problem on turfgrasses. In fact, at the 1995 American Society of Agronomy annual meeting, the role of pythium in summer bentgrass decline was somewhat debunked by work conducted by…