Article: The Beaumont Enterprise, Texas, Dennis Franklin column: DENNIS FRANKLIN: Some of fall's grays, browns signal fungus is spreading.(Column)

Byline: Dennis Franklin

Sep. 28--Abundant foliage, plentiful rainfall and cooling weather have set the stage for a number of significant plant diseases this fall.

Most pathogens that attack plants are fungi that spread by windblown or rain-splashed spores. Lawnmowers and other landscape equipment spread others.

Two lawn diseases already are showing up at significant levels in landscapes: gray leaf spot and brown patch. Fungi that favor wet conditions cause them.

The pathogen spreads when a raindrop hits an infected leaf and splashes spores to adjacent leaves. Gray leaf spot causes numerous small, gray lesions or spots on the leaves, ...

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