Disease
Select from the below interviews with supers and blog posts for information on disease control.
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Pythium Disease Overview
Pythium turf diseases cause real problems for golf course superintendents. Three different diseases are caused by various pythium species. Banol® is an effective fungicide for all pythium diseases. Application guidelines differ for each of these pythium diseases. Read on to learn about Envu's available solutions to Pythium.
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Pythium Treatment At Twin Creeks Country Club, NSW
Learn how Twin Creeks Country Club worked with Living Turf and the Analytical Laboratory SESL Australia to diagnose and treat Pythium in their golf course.
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Royal Canberra Golf Club – Bentgrass
Ben Grylewicz discusses his experience with Bentgrass.
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Update: Half Moon Bay Golf Club Signature Xtra Stressgard
Grant Cockerell shares his success with Signature Xtra Stressgard® trial
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Catalina Country Club Uses Reserve Stressgard To Deal With Dollar Spot
Catalina Country Club: "We have changed our program and are finding that we have more flexibility and more peace of mind for the health of our turf."
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Dollar Spot Makes An Appearance
Envu Amplify Turf provides turf managers and golf course superintendents with the latest thinking and ideas in turf management.
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Dollar Spot Overview
Dollar Spot, caused by Sclerotinia Homoeocarpa, is a widespread and very destructive turfgrass disease that can be observed throughout the year in Australia. Dollar Spot is known to attack most turfgrass species including Winter Grass, Bentgrasses, Fescues, Kentucky Bluegrass, Perennial Ryegrass, Zoysia, Couch and Buffalo.
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Exteris Stressgard Trial Results: Cypress Lakes Resort
Learn how Exteris® Stressgard was used at Cypress Lakes Resort to address turf disease such as Dollar Spot and Poa Annua.
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Exteris Stressgard Trial Results: Penrith Golf Club
Ian Thompson, Course Superintendent, discusses the trial results of Exteris Stressgard®.
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Exteris Stressgard Trial Results: Yarrambat Park Golf Club
Rob Harper, Course Superintendent discusses his experience with using Exteris Stressgard® to control Dollar Spot. Watch the video and be inspired!
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Improved Dollar Spot Control
Interesting new research coming out from Virginia Tech University in the USA shows that the use of iron sulphate can have a positive effect on Dollar Spot disease control.
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Magenta Golf And Country Club Tackles Dollar Spot
Find out how Magenta Golf and Country Club use Dedicate® FORTE Stressgard to tackle Dollar Spot.
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Microdochium Patch and Dollar Spot Management
Microdochium Patch (Microdochium Nivale) can be a tough problem on turf throughout the cooler months of the year. This disease is also known as Winter Fusarium in older references. Microdochium patch develops in cool to warm, wet weather.
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Controlling Fusarium in Bingley, UK
Ian Pullan, Golf Superintendent at Hollins Hall Marriott Hotel & Country Club in Bingley, West Yorkshire talks about the challenges faced coming into the winter months.
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Exteris Stressgard Trial – Wollongong Golf Club
Keenan Hobbs, Course Superintendent discusses the results of his trial of Exteris Stressgard®.
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Exteris Stressgard Trial Results: Sorrento Golf Club
Course Superintendent, Shane Greenhill trialed Exteris Stressgard® and discusses the results.
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Royal Canberra Golf Club Discusses The Efficacy Of Exteris Stressgard On Dollar Spot
The Royal Canberra Golf Club employs Exteris Stressgard® to protect against diseases such as Dollar Spot, Brown Patch, and Fusarium.
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Winter Fusarium
Winter Fusarium (Microdochium nivale) is also known ‘microdochium patch’. The same fungus causes a disease called ‘pink snow mould’ in the US.
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Winter Fusarium Overview
Winter Fusarium (Microdochium Nivale) can be a tough problem on cool-season turf from autumn through to early summer. This disease is also known as ‘Microdochium Patch’ and the same fungus causes a disease called ‘Pink Snow Mould’ in the US.
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Fairy Ring Management
Fairy ring on turfgrass is difficult to control. It is caused by any of 60 or more soil-borne basidiomycete fungi. Fairy ring fungi do not directly attack plants but instead cause problems by stimulating turf and/or causing hydrophobic soils that lead to localized dry spot (LDS). Fairy ring fungi use lignin in thatch and organic matter as a food source.
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Fairy Rings
Fairy Rings have become evident in many areas of NSW as the warm season grasses are coming out of winter dormancy.
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Anthracnose Solutions
Anthracnose foliar blight and basal rot caused by Colletotrichum cereale are primarily diseases of Wintergrass and Creeping Bentgrass greens under stress conditions. Read on to find out more about Anthracnose and how to overcome it.
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Banol And Reserve Stressgard Are Camden Golf Club's Choice Solution For Turf Diseases.
Camden Golf Club deals with Pythium using Banol® and optimises plant health and vigour with Reserve® Stressgard. Hear what Course Superintendent Shane Herring has to say.
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Bentgrass Control Programs At Royal Canberra Golf Club, ACT
Andrew Boyle, Superintendent at Royal Canberra Golf Club discusses the issues with Bentgrass on the course.
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Brown Patch Overview
Brown Patch is a common disease caused by the soilborne fungus Rhizoctonia Solani. It causes foliar blighting of nearly all cool season turfgrass species, which include creeping Bentgrass, Perennial Ryegrass, Poa spp. and Tall Fescue. Brown Patch can cause significant damage in the spring through to autumn, with the highest risk in the summer. Although all cool season turf species are affected, many colonial Bentgrass varieties are highly susceptible to Brown Patch.
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Chemical Control Of Turfgrass Diseases In Australia
Turfgrasses under intensive management are often subject to outbreaks of infectious diseases.
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Controlling Brown Patch
Brown Patch is a common disease caused by the soil borne fungus Rhizoctonia Solani. Brown Patch can cause significant damage in the spring through autumn with the highest risk in the summer.
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Discover Signature Xtra Stressgard
Signature Xtra Stressgard's new proprietary components proven to provide excellent preventative control. Learn more in this video.
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Fungicide Properties
The current weather conditions have raised questions on the amount of irrigation to apply to wash in fungicides when soils are already at elevated moisture content.
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Helminthosporium Disease Solutions
Helminthosporium are diseases of turf caused by fungal pathogens in the genera Dreschlera, Bipolaris and Exserohilum. Sometimes these diseases are referred to as leaf spot or melting out.
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Managing Turf When Dealing With Multiple Weekly Users at AAMI Park
Justin Lang, Sports Field Coordinator at AAMI Park, shares the work that goes into maintaining the turf for its five tenants.
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Microdochium Control
Microdochium patch (Microdochium nivale) (sometimes referred to as Fusarium patch) is problematic from autumn through early-summer in many areas.
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Moss and Algae: Primitive Plants That Colonize Turf
Moss and algae are primitive plants which colonize turf areas that have reduced grass cover.
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Practical Aspects of Preventing Fungicide Resistance
Fungicide resistance occurs when a fungicide that was once effective for a specific disease no longer provides control.
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Rhizoctonia Management On Kikuyu, Is It Large Patch?
Over the last few years a patch disease has developed on kikuyu turf. Disease development tended to occur between autumn and spring. Symptoms were very large patches of affected turf. Examination of samples found the roots to be severely infected with Rhizoctonia solani. This pathogen is commonly referred to as brown patch and is known to cause disease on a range of turfgrass species.
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Rust Disease Activity in NSW and QLD
Rust has been detected on warm season grasses in both NSW and QLD in recent weeks. Rust is generally a disease of high cut turf situations, with outbreaks most common in oversown racetracks, sportsfields, parks and turf farms. Occasionally symptoms may also occur in golf course fairways and roughs.
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Signature Xtra Stressgard – Improved Compatibility And Tank Mixing
Jyri Kaapro, Senior Marketing Development Specialist at Envu discusses new formulation and offers tips for improved tank mix compatibility.
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Signature Xtra Stressgard Trial Results: Keysborough Golf Club
Chris Allan, Course Superintendent at Keysborough Golf Club discusses the succesful trial results of Signature Xtra Stressgard® over the hot, dry summer months.
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Signature Xtra Stressgard Trial Results: Keysborough Golf Club
Keenan Hobbs, Course Superintendent at Shoalhaven Golf Club shares the successful trial results of Signature Xtra Stressgard® on his Bent Grass greens.
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Signature Xtra Stressgard Trial Results: Terrey Hills Country Club
Gareth Hammond,Course Superintendent at Terrey Hills Golf Club shares the succesful trial results of Signature Xtra Stressgard®.
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Slime Mould Outbreaks
The past weeks have seen outbreaks of Slime Moulds in some areas.
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Spring Dead Spot Overview
Spring Dead Spot (SDS) is an important root disease of common couchgrass [known in the US as bermudagrass (Cynodon dactylon) and hybrid bermudagrass (C. dactylon x transvaalensis)]. SDS is most damaging on couchgrass that experiences winter dormancy, especially in areas where freezing injury occurs.
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Spring Dead Spot Solution
The Spring Dead Spot fungus is active in many areas of Australia. The late finish to summer may keep the fungus active longer than on other years. Read on to learn more about how to treat Spring Dead Spot with the right application.
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Summer Decline Overview
The decline in turf quality and growth of creeping bentgrass and annual wintergrass is a major problem on putting greens during the summer months. Both biotic (diseases) and abiotic stresses (high temperature, high relative humidity, excessive soil moisture, poor air movement) may be contributing factors to the severity of summer decline.
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Take It All
Take-All Patch is caused by the fungus Gaeumannomyces graminis var avenae. The disease generally appears in late spring or early summer.
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Take-All Patch Overview
Take-All patch is an important root disease of all Bentgrasses. It is caused by the fungus Gaeumannomyces graminis var avenae. The disease can appear in wet, cold conditions or in warm, hot conditions when plants are experiencing stress.
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Tips for Managing Fungicide Resistance in Turf
Fungicide resistance causes a once effective fungicide to no longer provide adequate control of a particular disease.
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What is Spring Dead Spot?
Learn more about Spring Dead Spot, a root infecting fungus commonly affecting Couch Grass.
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Pythium Disease Overview
Pythium turf diseases cause real problems for golf course superintendents. Three different diseases are caused by various pythium species. Banol® is an effective fungicide for all pythium diseases. Application guidelines differ for each of these pythium diseases. Read on to learn about Envu's available solutions to Pythium.
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Pythium Treatment At Twin Creeks Country Club, NSW
Learn how Twin Creeks Country Club worked with Living Turf and the Analytical Laboratory SESL Australia to diagnose and treat Pythium in their golf course.
-
Royal Canberra Golf Club – Bentgrass
Ben Grylewicz discusses his experience with Bentgrass.
-
Update: Half Moon Bay Golf Club Signature Xtra Stressgard
Grant Cockerell shares his success with Signature Xtra Stressgard® trial
-
Catalina Country Club Uses Reserve Stressgard To Deal With Dollar Spot
Catalina Country Club: "We have changed our program and are finding that we have more flexibility and more peace of mind for the health of our turf."
-
Dollar Spot Makes An Appearance
Envu Amplify Turf provides turf managers and golf course superintendents with the latest thinking and ideas in turf management.
-
Dollar Spot Overview
Dollar Spot, caused by Sclerotinia Homoeocarpa, is a widespread and very destructive turfgrass disease that can be observed throughout the year in Australia. Dollar Spot is known to attack most turfgrass species including Winter Grass, Bentgrasses, Fescues, Kentucky Bluegrass, Perennial Ryegrass, Zoysia, Couch and Buffalo.
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Exteris Stressgard Trial Results: Cypress Lakes Resort
Learn how Exteris® Stressgard was used at Cypress Lakes Resort to address turf disease such as Dollar Spot and Poa Annua.
-
Exteris Stressgard Trial Results: Penrith Golf Club
Ian Thompson, Course Superintendent, discusses the trial results of Exteris Stressgard®.
-
Exteris Stressgard Trial Results: Yarrambat Park Golf Club
Rob Harper, Course Superintendent discusses his experience with using Exteris Stressgard® to control Dollar Spot. Watch the video and be inspired!
-
Improved Dollar Spot Control
Interesting new research coming out from Virginia Tech University in the USA shows that the use of iron sulphate can have a positive effect on Dollar Spot disease control.
-
Magenta Golf And Country Club Tackles Dollar Spot
Find out how Magenta Golf and Country Club use Dedicate® FORTE Stressgard to tackle Dollar Spot.
-
Microdochium Patch and Dollar Spot Management
Microdochium Patch (Microdochium Nivale) can be a tough problem on turf throughout the cooler months of the year. This disease is also known as Winter Fusarium in older references. Microdochium patch develops in cool to warm, wet weather.
-
Controlling Fusarium in Bingley, UK
Ian Pullan, Golf Superintendent at Hollins Hall Marriott Hotel & Country Club in Bingley, West Yorkshire talks about the challenges faced coming into the winter months.
-
Exteris Stressgard Trial – Wollongong Golf Club
Keenan Hobbs, Course Superintendent discusses the results of his trial of Exteris Stressgard®.
-
Exteris Stressgard Trial Results: Sorrento Golf Club
Course Superintendent, Shane Greenhill trialed Exteris Stressgard® and discusses the results.
-
Royal Canberra Golf Club Discusses The Efficacy Of Exteris Stressgard On Dollar Spot
The Royal Canberra Golf Club employs Exteris Stressgard® to protect against diseases such as Dollar Spot, Brown Patch, and Fusarium.
-
Winter Fusarium
Winter Fusarium (Microdochium nivale) is also known ‘microdochium patch’. The same fungus causes a disease called ‘pink snow mould’ in the US.
-
Winter Fusarium Overview
Winter Fusarium (Microdochium Nivale) can be a tough problem on cool-season turf from autumn through to early summer. This disease is also known as ‘Microdochium Patch’ and the same fungus causes a disease called ‘Pink Snow Mould’ in the US.
-
Fairy Ring Management
Fairy ring on turfgrass is difficult to control. It is caused by any of 60 or more soil-borne basidiomycete fungi. Fairy ring fungi do not directly attack plants but instead cause problems by stimulating turf and/or causing hydrophobic soils that lead to localized dry spot (LDS). Fairy ring fungi use lignin in thatch and organic matter as a food source.
-
Fairy Rings
Fairy Rings have become evident in many areas of NSW as the warm season grasses are coming out of winter dormancy.
-
Anthracnose Solutions
Anthracnose foliar blight and basal rot caused by Colletotrichum cereale are primarily diseases of Wintergrass and Creeping Bentgrass greens under stress conditions. Read on to find out more about Anthracnose and how to overcome it.
-
Banol And Reserve Stressgard Are Camden Golf Club's Choice Solution For Turf Diseases.
Camden Golf Club deals with Pythium using Banol® and optimises plant health and vigour with Reserve® Stressgard. Hear what Course Superintendent Shane Herring has to say.
-
Bentgrass Control Programs At Royal Canberra Golf Club, ACT
Andrew Boyle, Superintendent at Royal Canberra Golf Club discusses the issues with Bentgrass on the course.
-
Brown Patch Overview
Brown Patch is a common disease caused by the soilborne fungus Rhizoctonia Solani. It causes foliar blighting of nearly all cool season turfgrass species, which include creeping Bentgrass, Perennial Ryegrass, Poa spp. and Tall Fescue. Brown Patch can cause significant damage in the spring through to autumn, with the highest risk in the summer. Although all cool season turf species are affected, many colonial Bentgrass varieties are highly susceptible to Brown Patch.
-
Chemical Control Of Turfgrass Diseases In Australia
Turfgrasses under intensive management are often subject to outbreaks of infectious diseases.
-
Controlling Brown Patch
Brown Patch is a common disease caused by the soil borne fungus Rhizoctonia Solani. Brown Patch can cause significant damage in the spring through autumn with the highest risk in the summer.
-
Discover Signature Xtra Stressgard
Signature Xtra Stressgard's new proprietary components proven to provide excellent preventative control. Learn more in this video.
-
Fungicide Properties
The current weather conditions have raised questions on the amount of irrigation to apply to wash in fungicides when soils are already at elevated moisture content.
-
Helminthosporium Disease Solutions
Helminthosporium are diseases of turf caused by fungal pathogens in the genera Dreschlera, Bipolaris and Exserohilum. Sometimes these diseases are referred to as leaf spot or melting out.
-
Managing Turf When Dealing With Multiple Weekly Users at AAMI Park
Justin Lang, Sports Field Coordinator at AAMI Park, shares the work that goes into maintaining the turf for its five tenants.
-
Microdochium Control
Microdochium patch (Microdochium nivale) (sometimes referred to as Fusarium patch) is problematic from autumn through early-summer in many areas.
-
Moss and Algae: Primitive Plants That Colonize Turf
Moss and algae are primitive plants which colonize turf areas that have reduced grass cover.
-
Practical Aspects of Preventing Fungicide Resistance
Fungicide resistance occurs when a fungicide that was once effective for a specific disease no longer provides control.
-
Rhizoctonia Management On Kikuyu, Is It Large Patch?
Over the last few years a patch disease has developed on kikuyu turf. Disease development tended to occur between autumn and spring. Symptoms were very large patches of affected turf. Examination of samples found the roots to be severely infected with Rhizoctonia solani. This pathogen is commonly referred to as brown patch and is known to cause disease on a range of turfgrass species.
-
Rust Disease Activity in NSW and QLD
Rust has been detected on warm season grasses in both NSW and QLD in recent weeks. Rust is generally a disease of high cut turf situations, with outbreaks most common in oversown racetracks, sportsfields, parks and turf farms. Occasionally symptoms may also occur in golf course fairways and roughs.
-
Signature Xtra Stressgard – Improved Compatibility And Tank Mixing
Jyri Kaapro, Senior Marketing Development Specialist at Envu discusses new formulation and offers tips for improved tank mix compatibility.
-
Signature Xtra Stressgard Trial Results: Keysborough Golf Club
Chris Allan, Course Superintendent at Keysborough Golf Club discusses the succesful trial results of Signature Xtra Stressgard® over the hot, dry summer months.
-
Signature Xtra Stressgard Trial Results: Keysborough Golf Club
Keenan Hobbs, Course Superintendent at Shoalhaven Golf Club shares the successful trial results of Signature Xtra Stressgard® on his Bent Grass greens.
-
Signature Xtra Stressgard Trial Results: Terrey Hills Country Club
Gareth Hammond,Course Superintendent at Terrey Hills Golf Club shares the succesful trial results of Signature Xtra Stressgard®.
-
Slime Mould Outbreaks
The past weeks have seen outbreaks of Slime Moulds in some areas.
-
Spring Dead Spot Overview
Spring Dead Spot (SDS) is an important root disease of common couchgrass [known in the US as bermudagrass (Cynodon dactylon) and hybrid bermudagrass (C. dactylon x transvaalensis)]. SDS is most damaging on couchgrass that experiences winter dormancy, especially in areas where freezing injury occurs.
-
Spring Dead Spot Solution
The Spring Dead Spot fungus is active in many areas of Australia. The late finish to summer may keep the fungus active longer than on other years. Read on to learn more about how to treat Spring Dead Spot with the right application.
-
Summer Decline Overview
The decline in turf quality and growth of creeping bentgrass and annual wintergrass is a major problem on putting greens during the summer months. Both biotic (diseases) and abiotic stresses (high temperature, high relative humidity, excessive soil moisture, poor air movement) may be contributing factors to the severity of summer decline.
-
Take It All
Take-All Patch is caused by the fungus Gaeumannomyces graminis var avenae. The disease generally appears in late spring or early summer.
-
Take-All Patch Overview
Take-All patch is an important root disease of all Bentgrasses. It is caused by the fungus Gaeumannomyces graminis var avenae. The disease can appear in wet, cold conditions or in warm, hot conditions when plants are experiencing stress.
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Tips for Managing Fungicide Resistance in Turf
Fungicide resistance causes a once effective fungicide to no longer provide adequate control of a particular disease.
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What is Spring Dead Spot?
Learn more about Spring Dead Spot, a root infecting fungus commonly affecting Couch Grass.