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Web URL(s): | https://listings.lib.msu.edu/tpint/2011oct.pdf#page=5 Last checked: 10/27/2017 Requires: PDF Reader Notes: Item is within a single large file http://www.turfgrasssod.org/files/file/a60f1c07-2490-495f-859d-6d1826c86823#page=5 Last checked: 01/30/2012 Requires: PDF Reader Notes: Item is within a single large file |
Publication Type:
| Newsletter |
Author(s): | Anonymous |
Title: | Believe it or not! |
Source: | Turfgrass Producers International E-Newsletter. Vol. 4, No. 9, October 2011, p. 5. |
Publishing Information: | East Dundee, IL: Turfgrass Producers International |
# of Pages: | 1 |
Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Poa pratensis; Root length; Root measurement; Root systems
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Subjects' Names: | Dittmer, Dr. Howard J. |
Abstract/Contents: | Elaborates and seeks to scientifically substantiate the claim that "a single grass plant has 387 miles of roots." Explains that the claim originated in a book by Dr. Howard J. Dittmer called A Quantitative Study of the Subterranean, which quotes: "to give you some idea of the magnitude of the grass root system, Dittmer showed that Kentucky bluegrass per cubic inch of soil has 2,000 roots, one million root hairs and a combined root length of over 4,000 feet." |
Language: | English |
References: | 2 |
Note: | Pictures, color |
| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete): Anonymous. 2011. Believe it or not!. Turfgrass Producers Int. E-Newsl. 4(9):p. 5. |
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