Speaker: Nathaniel Mitkowski, assistant professor in the Department of Plant Science at the University of Rhode Island
Abstract:
Although turfgrasses are highly susceptible to diseases, the expectations of users and the level of turfgrass maintenance can have a dramatic impact on disease severity and on the types of effective and available disease management techniques. Diseases can be mitigated on home lawns and other landscaped areas by employing a number of different low input strategies. Most of these techniques are easy to implement.
Biography:
Dr. Mitkowski is an assistant professor in the Department of Plant Science at the University of Rhode Island. His research focuses primarily on stress related diseases on amenity turfgrasses and he teaches Diseases of Turf and Ornamentals, Advanced Turf Management and Plant Improvement. Dr. Mitkowski also runs the URI Turfgrass Disease Diagnostic laboratory which receives samples from across New England. He earned a PhD in Plant Pathology from Cornell University and a BS in Plant Pathology from the University of Massachusetts.