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| Web URL(s): | https://gsrpdf.lib.msu.edu/?file=/2000s/2002/020712.pdf Last checked: 01/25/2017 Requires: PDF Reader |
| Publication Type: | Professional |
| Author(s): | Frank, Kevin W. |
| Author Affiliation: | Assistant Professor, Turfgrass Science, Michigan State University |
| Title: | Buffalograss management research: The results may surprise you: The surprising response of this native species to management inputs |
| Section: | Research you can use Other records with the "Research you can use" Section |
| Source: | USGA Green Section Record. Vol. 40, No. 4, July/August 2002, p. 12-14. |
| Publishing Information: | Far Hills, NJ: United States Golf Association, Green Section |
| # of Pages: | 3 |
| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Bouteloua dactyloides; Nitrogen fertilizers; Fertilization rates; Weeds; Golf courses; Lawn turf; Mowing height; Expectations; Visual evaluation; Low maintenance turfgrass species; Cultivar evaluation; Color; Percent living ground cover; Vegetative propagation; Seed propagation; Comparisons USGA Green Section Keywords: Grasses: Warm-season Grasses; Research; Roughs |
| Cultivar Names: | 378; NE 91-118; Cody; Texoka |
| Abstract/Contents: | Discusses the need to develop new management recommendations for buffalograss. Explains that "most management recommendations supported the low-maintenance philosophy by advocating little or no fertilizer application, as well as infrequent or no mowing. In low-maintenance areas where expectations are simply based on having ground cover, buffalograss managed in this matter is acceptable. However, for those who have planted buffalograss in golf course roughs or home lawns, following these management recommendations has often led to disappointment with the quality of turf achieved." Presents a study "to investigate nitrogen rate and mowing height effects on four different buffalograss cultivars." Results include that "contrary to popular notion, there was no observed increase in weed interference as the nitrogen rate increased. Buffalograss responded to the nitrogen applications just as all other turfgrasses do, with improved color, quality, and density...Buffalograss response to the three mowing heights varied among cultivars. At the one-inch mowing height, the vegetatively propagated cultivars 378 and NE 91-118 had good color, quality, and density. The seed-propagated cultivars, Cody and Texoka, performed poorly at the one-inch mowing height, and they rarely had acceptable density, even at the 4-pound N rate. Cody and Texoka responded well to the two-inch and three-inch mowing heights. In contrast, 378 and NE 91-118 generally had higher quality when mowed at two inches rather than three. At the three-inch mowing height, NE 91-118 often lacked uniformity." States that "our recommendations are to apply 2 pounds N per 1,000 square feet per year as a split application approximately six weeks apart...For vegetative cultivars, mowing heights of one-half to three inches are acceptable. The half-inch mowing height would only be recommended for use as golf course fairways...Due to poor density at low mowing heights, the mowing height recommendation for seeding cultivars is two to three inches." |
| Language: | English |
| References: | 8 |
| Note: | Pictures, color Graphs |
| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-like – may be incomplete): | Frank, K. W. 2002. Buffalograss management research: The results may surprise you: The surprising response of this native species to management inputs. USGA Green Sec. Rec. 40(4):p. 12-14. |
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| Web URL(s) : | https://gsrpdf.lib.msu.edu/?file=/2000s/2002/020712.pdf Last checked: 01/25/2017 Requires: PDF Reader |
| MSU catalog number: | SB 433.15 .U84 |
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