Research

Prevent winter desiccation on creeping bentgrass

September 17, 2019 By Bill Kreuser, Ph.D.

Winter injury from desiccation is a leading cause of turf loss across the northern and central Great Plains. Desiccation occurs whenever turfgrass water loss exceeds its ability to acquire water from the soil. Desiccation can happen at any time of ...

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Fall broadleaf weed control in cool-season turf

September 17, 2019 By Clark Throssell, Ph.D.

Dave Gardner, Ph.D., is a turfgrass scientist at The Ohio State University. Dave has conducted numerous weed management and control research projects to help superintendents achieve effective broadleaf weed control. You may reach Dave at gardner.254@osu.edu for more information. Why ...

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Experts’ Insights: Shut down snow mold

September 5, 2019 By Sarah Webb

Snow mold is an umbrella term that encompasses pink snow mold, gray snow mold and speckled snow mold, according to Paul Koch, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Plant Pathology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It’s mostly found in ...

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Fall Proxy applications for Poa annua seedheads

August 6, 2019 By Clark Throssell, Ph.D.

Clark Throssell, Ph.D., interviews Zac Reicher, Ph.D., a technical specialist on the Green Solutions Team with Bayer Environmental Science. He has more than 30 years of turfgrass research experience and has conducted many annual bluegrass control experiments on research plots ...

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A turfie returns to the Lone Star State

August 6, 2019 By Rebecca Grubbs, Ph.D.

Hi, my name is Becky Grubbs-Bowling, Ph.D. I’m originally from Dallas, Texas, and I completed my undergraduate and master’s degrees in horticulture at Texas Tech University in 2010 and 2013, respectively. I then went on to complete my Ph.D. in ...

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Things I learned about snow mold last winter

August 6, 2019 By Paul Koch, Ph.D

Every winter is different. Some are snowier than others, some are colder than others and some have those dreaded ice events. Sometimes our research plots have lots of snow mold, other years, sadly, none. No matter the conditions, I always ...

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