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Nitrogen Affects the Summer Density of Creeping Bentgrass December 1, 2008
Creeping bentgrass (Agrostis stolonifera var. palustris Huds. Farw.) is the preferred turfgrass species for golf greens (Beard, 2002). Creeping bentgrass is a cool-season grass that forms an extremely dense, fine-textured, persistent turf that tolerates close (less than 0.125 inches), frequent...More>>
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Colonial Bentgrass Can Lower Fairway Inputs November 1, 2008
By Stacy A. BonosMore>>
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Are Etiolated Tillers A Visual Nuisance or Something Else? October 1, 2008
Have you ever noticed the distinct, visual appearance of elongated or etiolated turfgrass leaf blades on tees, fairways or greens? In areas where the turfgrass surface is perfectly even and manicured, you might have noticed an occasional leaf blade stretching upward an inch or more above the neatly...More>>
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Timely Fungicide Applications, Salinity Reduction Help Control Rapid Blight September 1, 2008
Rapid blight is a relatively new turfgrass disease (Stowell et al., 2005). It was first described in 1995 when microscopic football-shaped structures were routinely observed within leaf cells in symptomatic cool-season turfgrasses, but their identity and relevance to disease remained a mystery for...More>>
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Simple Approach Is Not Always So Easy September 1, 2008
It might appear the maintenance and construction of sand greens would be easy, low cost and environmentally friendlyMore>>
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Improved Zoysia Cultivar Could Have Use in Transition Zone August 1, 2008
The northern border of the turfgrass transition zone in the United States is roughly Interstate 70 from Maryland through eastern Kansas. The southern boundary is roughly the southern borders of North Carolina, Kentucky and Tennessee (Dunn and Diesburg, 2004). Whether or not a particular warm-season...More>>
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Secrets to Controlling Hunting Billbug Reside in Warm-Season Turfgrasses July 1, 2008
Billbugs are well known insect pests of turf in many parts of the world. Historically, this has been true in the United States in areas where cool-season turfgrass, such as bluegrass, is grown. In these regions, research on the bluegrass billbug, Sphenophorus parvulus Gyllenhal, has been quite...More>>
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Gene Flow Study in Genetically Altered Crops Helps Progress Transgenic Turfgrass July 1, 2008
Genetic improvement of plants through the introduction of a variety of traits - such as tolerance to insects, disease, chemicals, drought or fewer nutrients - is common in agriculture throughout the world. Traditional approaches, such as classical breeding, induced mutagenesis or wide crossing,...More>>
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Summer Brings Fun, Sun and LDS July 1, 2008
LDS is found across a wide range of soil conditions, especially sandy soilsMore>>
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Wetting Agents Provide Ways to Manage Summer Stress of Bentgrass in the Transition Zone May 1, 2008
Plots receiving wetting agents showed better turf quality under drought conditions.More>>
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