Creeping Bentgrass Management (2nd Ed.)
Auteur : Dernoeden Peter H.
Creeping bentgrass is considered the premier turfgrass species grown on golf courses, and there is a growing demand for an understanding of its maintenance and management practices. Still the only comprehensive reference on the subject, Creeping Bentgrass Management, Second Edition helps you identify the factors that contribute to summer bentgrass decline and guides you in selecting the best approaches for stress and pest management.
This full-color book delves into all aspects of modern approaches to creeping bentgrass management on golf courses. It describes the nature of mechanical, physiological, and environmental stresses and how they influence growth and management of creeping bentgrass. The book covers the selection of creeping bentgrass cultivars; cultural practices, including mowing, irrigation, and topdressing; the deleterious effects of organic and inorganic layers in golf greens; and ways to limit injury due to mechanical or physical stresses. It also discusses recent advances in the management of selected diseases and soil-related maladies of creeping bentgrass?from Pythium-incited root dysfunction to dollar spot, yellow tuft, and blue-green algae. The focus is on common disease symptoms, predisposing conditions, hosts, and cultural and chemical management strategies. Advances in biological disease control are also reviewed.
The book offers practical guidance in selecting and using fungicides, herbicides, and plant growth regulators. It also discusses the use of non-selective herbicides and fumigants for the renovation of creeping bentgrass and outlines strategies for dealing with selected invertebrate pests. Throughout, color photographs help you identify diseases and stresses that may be affecting your own golf course.
Fully revised and updated, this second edition of a bestseller features three new chapters, new photographs, and expanded information about diseases. Drawing on the author?s more than thirty years of experience and research, it brings together a wealth of information on how to optimize creeping bentgrass health and performance.
What?s New in This Edition
- Three new chapters, covering the nature of fungicides, abiotic maladies, and selected invertebrate pests
- An expanded section on disease?double the length of the first edition
- Updated chapters that reflect the latest developments in creeping bentgrass management
- More extensive discussion of annual bluegrass problems and their management
- More than 100 new photos
Tips from Dr. Dernoeden
Watch these videos to get Dr. Dernoeden?s tips on how to control dollar spot disease and crabgrass and how to identify fairy ring.
The Nature of Summer Stresses. Cultural Practices for Summer Stress Management. Selected Biotic and Abiotic Maladies of Bentgrass. Selected Creeping Bentgrass Diseases and Pathogens. Biological Approaches to Turf Disease Management. Understanding Modern Turf Fungicides. Herbicides for Creeping Bentgrass. Use of Plant Growth Regulators on Creeping Bentgrass. Renovation. Selected Invertebrate Pests.
Peter H. Dernoeden is a Professor of Turfgrass Science in the Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture at the University of Maryland.
Date de parution : 11-2017
15.6x23.4 cm
Disponible chez l'éditeur (délai d'approvisionnement : 14 jours).
Prix indicatif 66,20 €
Ajouter au panierDate de parution : 07-2012
Ouvrage de 376 p.
15.6x23.4 cm
Disponible chez l'éditeur (délai d'approvisionnement : 15 jours).
Prix indicatif 178,41 €
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Mots-clés :
Annual Bluegrass; Golf Greens; turfgrass management; Sand Topdressing; golf course management; Creeping Bentgrass Greens; creeping bentgrass management; Pythium Blight; summer stresses; Summer Stress Periods; turf fungicides; Brown Patch; plant growth regulators; Perennial Ryegrass; plant pathology; plant physiology; Sod Webworm; fungicide chemistry and mode of action; Fairy Rings; weed science; Preemergence Herbicides; plant growth regulation; Black Cutworm; irrigation; Mowing Height; high temperature stress; Parasitic Nematodes; drought stress; Bacterial Wilt; herbicides; Soil Wetting Agents; invertebrate pests; Wet Wilt; fumigation; Summer Patch; preventive versus curative control approaches; Plant Parasitic Nematodes; insecticides; Broadleaf Weeds; mowing; Yellow Tuft; rolling; Soil Microbial Activity; thatch-mat management; Methyl Bromide; core aeration; Contact Fungicides; creeping bentgrass