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| Publication Type:
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| Material Type: | Thesis |
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| Monographic Author(s): | Green, Thomas O. |
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| Author Affiliation: | Michigan State University |
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| Monograph Title: | A Combination of Lightweight Rolling and Sand Topdressing to Decrease Fungicide Inputs and Enhance Golf Course Fairway Turf Quality, 2015. |
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| Publishing Information: | M.S. Thesis: Michigan State University |
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| # of Pages: | 89 |
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| Collation: | viii, 81 pp. |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Agrostis stolonifera; Comparisons; Cultural control; Disease control; Dollar spot; Fungicide application; Golf fairways; Lightweight rolling; Poa annua; Sand topdressings; Sclerotinia homoeocarpa
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| Abstract/Contents: | "Dollar spot (Sclerotinia homoeocarpa F.T. Bennett) is a pervasive turfgrass disease in the upper Midwest affecting turfgrass quality, decreasing golf course playability, and resulting in millions of dollars spent on frequent fungicide applications. Michigan State University scientists observed reduced dollar spot infection in putting greens that were rolled several times weekly. Others observed less incidence of disease in sand-topdressed putting greens. We hypothesized that dollar spot infection in fairways would be decreased by sand topdressing and by rolling thereby reducing the need for frequent fungicide treatments. Two research projects were devised to address the practicality of this disease management strategy. The first project objective was to examine dollar spot severity responses in an Agrostis stolonifera L. and Poa annua L. fairway to varying frequencies of lightweight rolling and to sand topdressing with no fungicide application. Sand topdressing reduced infection by 50%. Cumulative effects of rolling were investigated with the one, three, and five time weekly rolling treatments. The three and five time rolling treatment had less disease compared to the control during the period of dollar spot activity. The second project assessed the effects of different fungicide application rates combined with sand topdressing and lightweight rolling on dollar spot disease in fairway turf. All monthly fungicide application rates improved turfgrass quality and normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) compared to the control. Moreover, as rolling frequency increased from 0 to 3x weekly on the no fungicide plots, sand topdressing improved turf quality and reduced dollar spot incidence." |
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| Language: | English |
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| See Also: | See also related article "A combination of lightweight rolling and sand topdress programs to decrease pesticide inputs and enhance fairway turfgrass quality" The Michigan Turfgrass Foundation and Michigan State University Present: Turfgrass Field Day, 2013, p. 24, R=227814. R=227814
See also related newsletter "A combination of lightweight rolling and sand topdressing to decrease fungicide inputs and enhance golf course fairway turf quality" News Notes [Michigan Turfgrass Foundation], 7(1) Spring/Summer 2015, p. 34 R=262379. R=262379 |
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| Note: | "ProQuest Number: 10005034"
Advisor: John N. III Rogers
Includes "Acknowledgements"
Includes "List of tables"; pp. vi-vii
Includes "List of figures"; p. viii
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
Green, Thomas O. 2015. A Combination of Lightweight Rolling and Sand Topdressing to Decrease Fungicide Inputs and Enhance Golf Course Fairway Turf Quality. M.S. Thesis: Michigan State University. |
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