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| Publication Type:
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| Content Type: | Q & A |
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| Corporate Author(s): | Sports Turf Research Institute |
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| Title: | Fusarium control |
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| Section: | Enquiries and replies
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| Source: | Journal of the Sports Turf Research Institute. Vol. 63, 1987, p. 167. |
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| Publishing Information: | Bingley, West Yorkshire, UK: The Sports Turf Research Institute |
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| # of Pages: | 1 |
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| Question: | "We once again suffered form an attack of Fusarium patch disease during wet weather this autumn. It has been suggested by some of our members that it would be wise to provide footbaths of suitable disinfectant or fungicide to prevent the disease being carried by members from neighboring greens. Are footbaths of this kind useful in this respect?" |
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| Answer/Response: | "In our opinion, footbaths of this kind are totally useless as the idea reflects a mistaken understanding of the way in which fusarium patch disease spreads. It should be realized that almost any area of turf in the country contains millions of fusarium spores, which will develop to produce disease symptoms if conditions are right for fungal spread. Since the disease is endemic in most greens in the country, carrying spores from one green to another is probably an insignificant factor in disease spread. A better approach is to use a suitable fungicide on the green as soon as the symptoms are noticed. Even better, management of the green should be geared towards minimizing the risks of fusarium occurring regularly in the long term. This can be done by keeping the surface as dry as possible by switching each morning and by ensuring that soil compaction and water logging are reduced by regular aeration and top dressing with free draining, sandy material. Another important factor is to discourage annual meadow-grass. This species is particularly susceptible to fusarium attack and a green, which contains a high proportion of the desirable bent, and fescue grasses will be less likely to suffer a very damaging attack. Annual meadow-grass is best reduced by avoiding summer over-watering and by carefully controlling the amount of nitrogen given to the green during the growing season. Fertilizer treatment in itself is also important in Fusarium control-greens receiving too much nitrogen over the growing season or which receive nitrogen in the autumn period are far more likely to suffer serious disease problems. The common and damaging disease should therefore be controlled by correct management and, if necessary, by prompt fungicidal treatment. Footbaths are not a useful additional precaution." |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Disease control; Disease development; Disease prevention; Microdochium patch; Poa pratensis; Recommendations
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 0 |
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
Sports Turf Research Institute. 1987. Fusarium control. J. Turfgrass Sports Surf. Sci. 63:p. 167. |
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