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Web URL(s): | http://archive.lib.msu.edu/tic/golfj/features/01/may/grass.htm Last checked: 03/2002 Notes: Online version does not include sidebar |
Publication Type:
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Author(s): | Walters, Tim;
Avery, Brett |
Author Affiliation: | Walters: Sportswriter, The Villages Daily Sun, Lady Lake, FL; Avery: Editor, Golf Journal |
Title: | Who owns grass?: A simmering dispute over a strain of paspalum is shedding light on an age-old question that has remained largely unasked in a century of turf research. |
Section: | Features Other records with the "Features" Section
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Source: | Golf Journal. Vol. 54, No. 3, May 2001, p. 31-35. |
Publishing Information: | Far Hills, NJ: United States Golf Association |
# of Pages: | 5 |
Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Paspalum vaginatum; Litigation; History; Plant Variety Protection Act; Golf courses; Research; Research funding; Course profile
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Facility Names: | The Old Collier Golf Club, in Naples, Florida; Alden Pines Country Club, in Florida |
Abstract/Contents: | Discusses ownership issues that arise when turfgrass scientists develop cultivars for large-scale production from samples taken from a golf course. Profiles the case of researcher Dr. Ronny Duncan, who was sued by Stewart Bennett, owner of Alden Pines Country Club, FL, for the royalties to a cultivar discoverd on his course. Sidebar profiles the Old Collier Golf Club in Naples, Fl. which "is one of the few courses in the U.S. entirely planted with Paspalum vaginatum," a species of turfgrass with extreme drought tolerance. |
Language: | English |
References: | 0 |
See Also: | Other items relating to: Seashore Paspalum - Since 2000 |
Note: | Includes sidebar, "A turf from the salt of the earth", p. 34 Pictures, color |
| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete): Walters, T., and B. Avery. 2001. Who owns grass?: A simmering dispute over a strain of paspalum is shedding light on an age-old question that has remained largely unasked in a century of turf research.. Golf J. 54(3):p. 31-35. |
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