Research

Bayer adds new Green Solutions Team member

March 23, 2015 By Golfdom staff

Environmental Science, a division of Bayer CropScience, has named Zachary Reicher, Ph.D., the newest member of the Bayer Green Solutions Team, a team of technical service specialists serving the turf and ornamentals (T&O) market. Reicher, who currently serves as the Cyril ...

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Holganix to host sustainability webinar with Paul B. Latshaw, CGCS

March 23, 2015 By Grant Gannon

Holganix team member Rob Dillinger will host a webinar with Paul Latshaw, one of the golf industry’s most respected superintendent’s, on March 25 at 2 p.m. EDT to discuss his experience with Holganix and sustainable products. Latshaw will discuss course conditions and his perspective ...

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Amvac releases new fungicide to control anthracnose

March 19, 2015 By Joelle Harms

Amvac Chemical Corp., a subsidiary of American Vanguard Corp., has introduced AUTILUS, a new turf fungicide. It can be used to control anthracnose on putting greens, tees and fairways. Anthracnose is particularly destructive to high maintenance turf, developing as foliar blight or basal rot. ...

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Impact of turf fans on creeping bentgrass greens

March 18, 2015 By David McCall, Ph.D

The physiology of creeping bentgrass [Agrostis stolonifera L. var palustris (Huds.)] is negatively impacted during periods of stress, decreasing the efficiency of many vital functions. Optimal creeping bentgrass growth occurs between 50 and 64 degrees. Root development slows as the ...

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Gimme some water: California drought far from over

March 18, 2015 By Karl Danneberger, Ph.D.

As Eddie Money once sang, “Gimme some water.” Water is the world’s most precious resource. I hear that statement or versions of it made all the time, and I believe it. When you live east of the Mississippi River surrounded ...

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Suppressing annual bluegrass seedheads

March 18, 2015 By Clark Throssell, Ph.D.

Bruce Branham, Ph.D., is a turfgrass scientist at the University of Illinois. He has conducted research on annual bluegrass management and control for more than 30 years. Bruce can be reached at bbranham@illinois.edu for more information. Q: What is a ...

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