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Agricultural Research Service United States Department of Agriculture
 
Research Project: Systematics and Diagnostics of Emerging and Quarantine-Significant Plant Pathogenic Fungi

Location: Systematic Mycology and Microbiology

Title: Biology and pathology of turfgrass anthracnose

Authors
item Crouch, Jo Anne
item Clarke, Bruce -

Submitted to: USGA Turfgrass and Environmental Research Online
Publication Type: Trade Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: May 1, 2012
Publication Date: May 1, 2012
Citation: Crouch, J., Clarke, B.B. 2012. Biology and pathology of turfgrass anthracnose. USGA Turfgrass and Environmental Research Online. 11(5):1-7.

Technical Abstract: Anthracnose is a destructive fungal disease of weakened turf that occurs throughout the United States, Canada, and Western Europe and is particularly severe on annual bluegrass (Poa annua). In this article, we provide an overview of the biology, host range and epidemiology of the fungus responsible for anthracnose disease on turfgrass, Colletotrichum cereale.

     
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