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| Web URL(s): | http://www.turfgrasssociety.eu/
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| Publication Type:
| Refereed |
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| Author(s): | Baylis, Francesca;
Gange, Alan C.;
Mann, Ruth;
Robinson-Boyer, Louisa |
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| Author Affiliation: | Baylis and Gange: School of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London; Mann: Sports Turf Research Institute, Bingley, UK; Robinson-Boyer: East Malling Research, Plantworks, Sittingbourne, UK |
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| Title: | Compatibility of microbial products with turfgrass shown by variability in grass response |
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| Meeting Info.: | Manchester, United Kingdom: July 2-4, 2018 |
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| Source: | 6th European Turf Society Conference Proceedings. Vol. 6th, June 2018, p. 4-5. |
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| Publishing Information: | Quinto Vicentino, Italy: European Turfgrass Society |
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| # of Pages: | 2 |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Arbuscular mycorrhizae; Golf greens; Growth promoters; Microbial inoculants; Rhizobacteria; Root zone; Soil microorganisms
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| Abstract/Contents: | "Sports turf is a large industry with very varied needs. Looking specifically at golf putting greens the root zone is often sand based, of low microbial diversity and stressed through common maintenance practises. With current chemicals used for control of diseases being removed from sale in the EU there is a growing trend across the market to use microbial alternatives to try and protect plant health. Two common considerations are arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR). There is existing evidence of microbes being used as plant protectants in grass species1, 2, 3, 4. However, there is no guarantee that adding these microbes through an inoculant will actually work as intended; whether due to existing soil microbes outcompeting those inoculated or the specificity of plant-microbe interactions meaning they dont interact as intended. Variability is a concept adapted from inequality calculations in economics to consider the variation in plant sizes within a population5. Lorenz curves can be used to demonstrate how varied a populations size distribution is by ranking individuals by size and plotting this cumulatively against cumulative proportion of total6. The line of equality is y=x where size distribution is equal across a population. When a microbe is added which interacts in a beneficial way with the species considered we can expect a decrease in variability as a mutual benefit is achieved across the population. However, when there is a negative interaction the microbe may not establish equally among the plants meaning only some benefit and size variability increases. This study considered the effect of adding a mycorrhizal inoculant, and a PGPR species (herein labelled F) on the size variability of an Agrostis capillaris population." |
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 6 |
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| Note: | Graphs |
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
Baylis, F., A. C. Gange, R. Mann, and L. Robinson-Boyer. 2018. Compatibility of microbial products with turfgrass shown by variability in grass response. Eur. Turfgrass Soc. Conf. Proc. 6th:p. 4-5. |
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