Over the past several decades, breeding cool-season turfgrasses for improved disease
resistance has been the focus of many turfgrass breeding programs. This review article …

Asexual species of the genus Epichloë (Clavicipitaceae, Ascomycota) form endosymbiotic
associations with Pooidae grasses. This association is important both ecologically and to the …

Sustainable integrated disease management for gray leaf spot of perennial ryegrass may
involve use of plant defense elicitors with compatible traditional fungicides to reduce …

Red clover (Trifolium pratense L.) is an outcrossing forage legume that has adapted to a
wide range of climatic and growing conditions across Europe. Red clover is valued for its …

Summary In the United States, cool‐season turfgrass breeding and cultivar development
can trace its earliest beginnings to the late 1800s within the USDA Division of Agrostology …

In this paper, we explored the protective effect and physiochemical mechanism of He-Ne
laser preillumination in enhancement of tall fescue seedlings tolerance to high salt stress …

Silicon (Si) is known to alleviate biotic and abiotic stress, and to reduce the development of
fungal diseases in a number of different pathosystems. Biochar-based Si fertilizers …

Tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea Schreb.) is an open-pollinated, perennial, cool-season turf
and forage grass species of great economic importance. The main problems of maintenance …

Asexual Epichloë spp. fungal endophytes have been extensively studied for their functional
secondary metabolite production. Historically, research mostly focused on understanding …

Abstract Tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea Schreb.) is an important turf and forage grass
species worldwide. Fungal diseases present a major limitation in the maintenance of tall …