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Scum mats occur on greens and low-cut turf areas
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Anthracnose typically infects turfgrass, particulary Wintergrass during warm weather when the turfgrass canopy is wet and or humid.
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The symptoms of Brown Patch can vary depending on the grass cultivar, climatic and atmospheric conditions, soil and intensity of the turfgrass management. Brown Patch infestation is more severe when the turf is cut to a height less than the optimum for the turfgrass being grown.
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Curvularia is mostly secondary disease after primary pathogens such as Spring Dead Spot and Helminthosporium, have infected turfgrass.
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Damping-off occurs in newly seeded areas and can be caused by Pythium or (and) Rhizoctonia spp.
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Dollar spot lesions on leaves are a pale, bleached colour in thr typical 'hourglass" shape. Small (dollar size) spots of bleached turf occur on close mown grass.
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Small spots 1-3 cm in diameter of yellowed densely tillered plants with shortened roots, that are easily pulled from the turf.
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The term 'fairy ring' is used to describe a number of turf grass diseases where soil-borne fungi cause certain symptoms to develop on the surface of the sward. Fairy rings are caused by the activity of many fungi classified as basidiomycetes.
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Grey Leaf Spot is more severe in newly established planting with high nitrogen levels.
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Helminthosporium is a complex of diseases previously known as Helminthosporium leaf, crown and root disease.
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The Kikuyu Yellows’ fungus is large a mystery at present, the process and time of infection as well as control measures are poorly understood.
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Pythium blight appears suddenly during hot, humid weather. The disease can spread very rapidly to cuase widespread scorching of the leaves.
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Pythium Root useally becomes evident on greens late in the summer season from December to February when turf becomes heat and drought stressed.
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This disease is particularly difficult to diagnose when red threads or cottony flocks are not present.
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Grasses growing under stressful environmental conditions are most easily parasitised by the Rust fungi.
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Spring Dead Spot symptoms typically becomes apparent during spring, although the infections happen during autumn prior to winter domancy.
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Take-all patch symptoms begin as a slight reddening or bronzing of bentgrass usually in a ring during summer months. As the bentgrass dies resistant grass species or broad-leaved weeds invade the centre of the patch. Patches can measure from a few centimetres in diameter to over a metre. Symptoms may fade in late autumn and winter.
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Symptoms are evident from May to September in the southern states of Australia.
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