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Title
Identify common turf diseases and disorders
Level
3
Credits
5
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to: describe the
features of turf diseases and disorders, and the life cycle of a
fungal pathogen; identify a common disease of turf grasses and
Leptinella species; and identify and describe the signs and
symptoms, and environmental factors that contribute to disease
opportunity, of common diseases of turf grasses and Leptinella
species.
Classification
Sports Turf > Sports Turf Weeds and Pests
Available grade
Achieved
Explanatory notes
Reference
Posters titled Turfgrass Diseases and Cotula Diseases are available from the NZ Sports
Turf Institute, website http://www.nzsti.org.nz/shop/.
Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Describe the features of turf diseases and disorders, and the life cycle of a fungal
pathogen.
Evidence requirements
1.1
Symptoms of turf diseases are distinguished from major turf disorders in terms
of their features.
Range
1.2
at least four turf disorders from – presence of fuel and oil spills,
fertiliser damage, dry patch, presence of animal urine, physical
plant injury, frost damage;
diseases – infectious, non-infectious.
The life cycle of a typical fungal pathogen is described in terms of inoculation,
penetration, and expression of infection and symptom.
Primary Industry Training Organisation
SSB Code 101558
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016
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Outcome 2
Identify the presence of a disease of turf grasses and Leptinella species.
Evidence requirements
2.1
The presence of a disease of turf is identified by its signs and symptoms.
Range
at least one of – mycelium, hyphae, fruiting body, sclerotia, lesion,
pustule, water-soaked, blight, chlorosis, leaf tip dieback.
Outcome 3
Identify and describe the signs and symptoms, and environmental factors that contribute to
disease opportunity, of common diseases of turf grasses and Leptinella species.
Range
at least five of – brown patch, yellow patch, fusarium patch, leaf spots including
melting out and Curvularia and drechslera, dollar spot, red thread and pink
patch, seed rot and damping off including Rhizoctonia and Pythium SPP.,
takeall patch, anthracnose, rust, persistent disease, yellow tuft, fairy ring, thatch
collapse, superficial basidiomycetes, Sclerotinia minor, Rolf's disease,
Phytophthora cryptogea, white patch, summer spotting disease, gold bracelet
disease, winter pythium patch, spring dead-spot.
Evidence requirements
3.1
Common turf diseases are identified and described by their visible signs and
symptoms.
3.2
Common turf diseases are described in terms of the environmental factors that
contribute to disease opportunity.
Range
environmental factors – temperature, light, humidity, soil moisture,
leaf wetness, thatch, soil pH, soil microorganisms, susceptible
hosts.
This unit standard is expiring. Assessment against the standard must take place by
the last date for assessment set out below.
Primary Industry Training Organisation
SSB Code 101558
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016
NZQA Expiring unit standard
1160 version 11
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Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process
Version Date
Last Date for Assessment
Registration
1
4 August 1995
31 December 2013
Revision
2
4 August 1995
31 December 2013
Revision
3
16 September 1996
31 December 2013
Revision
4
10 December 1997
31 December 2013
Revision
5
8 June 1999
31 December 2013
Review
6
15 December 2000
31 December 2013
Revision
7
12 January 2006
31 December 2013
Review
8
17 October 2008
31 December 2015
Review
9
18 August 2011
31 December 2015
Rollover
10
17 October 2013
31 December 2015
Rollover
11
17 September 2015
31 December 2019
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference
0037
This CMR can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Please note
Providers must be granted consent to assess against standards (accredited) by NZQA,
before they can report credits from assessment against unit standards or deliver courses
of study leading to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be granted consent to assess against standards by
NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
Providers and Industry Training Organisations, which have been granted consent and
which are assessing against unit standards must engage with the moderation system that
applies to those standards.
Requirements for consent to assess and an outline of the moderation system that applies
to this standard are outlined in the Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR). The
CMR also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations wishing
to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors
and assessors, and special resource requirements.
Primary Industry Training Organisation
SSB Code 101558
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016