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| DOI: | 10.4141/P99-CSAabstracts |
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| Content Type: | Abstract or Summary only |
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| Author(s): | Ehlke, Nancy Jo |
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| Author Affiliation: | University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN |
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| Title: | Developing Kentucky bluegrass for turf and seed production |
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| Section: | Abstracts of technical papers: Symposium 3. The role of amenity grasses for turf and forage
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| Source: | Canadian Journal of Plant Science. Vol. 80, No. 1, January 2000, p. 218. |
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| Publishing Information: | Ottawa: Agricultural Institute of Canada |
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| # of Pages: | 1 |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Poa pratensis; Seed production; Cultivar improvement; Seed yield; Quality; Disease resistance; Breeding; Genetic engineering
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| Abstract/Contents: | "Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratenis L.) is an important component of turf in the northern USA and Canada and seed production is an integral part of the farming systems in northern Minnesota. Research conducted at the University of Minnesota on Kentucky bluegrass has focused on two primary aspects; 1) maximizing the profitability of the seed production industry; and 2) developing new varieties of Kentucky bluegrass with improved seed yield, turf quality and disease resistance. Kentucky bluegrass is a facultative apomictic species. Plant breeding efforts have traditionally focused on the collection of novel plants from the environment. More recently, hybridization has been used with limited success. My research project has concentrated on using somaclonal variation to generate novel genetic variation. From our initial screening of over 300 plants derived from tissue culture in 1991, we currently have five lines in turf and seed production trials for potential variety release which have better turf quality and disease resistance than the parental explant source. In addition, we established approximately 3000 plants derived from our tissue culture program in the field in 1998 for initial evaluations of seed production, turf quality, and disease resistance. Seed production strategies have focused on improving the profitability for the growers in northern Minnesota. Research activities have focused on a range of activities that include variety evaluation, fertility trials, irrigation, herbicide screening and stand renovation techniques." |
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 0 |
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| Note: | Presented at the 1999 meeting of the Canadian Society of Agronomy
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
Ehlke, N. J. 2000. Developing Kentucky bluegrass for turf and seed production. Can. J. Plant Sci. 80(1):p. 218. |
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| DOI: 10.4141/P99-CSAabstracts |
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