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| Author(s): | Liskey, Eric |
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| Author Affiliation: | Technical editor, Grounds Maintenance |
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| Title: | Turfgrass varieties: Turfgrass breeders are making great progress with the latest technology. However, conventional breeding efforts have produced a new crop of turfgrass varieties better than anything you've seen before |
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| Column Name: | What's new
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| Section: | Features
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| Source: | Grounds Maintenance. Vol. 31, No. 8, August 1996, p. 34, 36, 38, 40, 55. |
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| Publishing Information: | Overland Park, KS: INTERTEC Publishing Corporation |
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| # of Pages: | 5 |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Cultivar improvement; Poa; Lolium perenne; Festuca arundinacea; Agrostis; Cynodon; Zoysia; Stenotaphrum secundatum; Low maintenance; Futures; Genetic engineering; Endophytes
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| Abstract/Contents: | Briefly describes newly developed varieties of several turfgrass species, including bluegrasses, perennial ryegrass, tall fescue, bentgrasses, bermudagrass, zoysiagrasses, and St. Augustinegrass. Lists several new varieties suitable for low maintenance turfgrass settings. Also discusses possible future developments in turfgrass breeding, including genetic engineering and endophyte enhancement. |
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 0 |
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| Note: | Includes sidebar, "The future"; p. 40
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
Liskey, E. 1996. Turfgrass varieties: Turfgrass breeders are making great progress with the latest technology. However, conventional breeding efforts have produced a new crop of turfgrass varieties better than anything you've seen before. Grounds Maint. 31(8):p. 34, 36, 38, 40, 55. |
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