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| Content Type: | Abstract or Summary only |
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| Author(s): | Nutter, G. C.;
Bryan, T. F. |
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| Author Affiliation: | Florida Agr. Exp. Sta. |
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| Title: | Vegetative propagation studies with southern turf grasses |
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| Section: | Crop science divisions: Turfgrass management
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| Meeting Info.: | Atlanta, Georgia: November 18-22, 1957 |
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| Source: | 1957 Agronomy Abstracts. 1957, p. 78. |
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| Publishing Information: | [Milwaukee, Wisconsin]: [American Society of Agronomy] |
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| # of Pages: | 1 |
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| Abstract/Contents: | "Considerable work has been done on the propagation of northern turf grasses by seed, but in the South, where the improved turf grasses are planted principally by vegetative means, there is little information available. This experiment was conducted to investigate different methods of vegetative propagation on three southern turf grasses. Bermudagrass (Cynodon dactylon L. Pers.), St. Augustinegrass (Stenotaphrum secundatum (Walt) Kuntze.) and Manilagrass (Zoysia matrella (L.) Merr.) were planted in August, 1956, each by 16 different vegetative methods. Planting methods included different size and spacing of plugs, different within-and between-row spacing of sprigs, and various methods of securing and planting shredded material. Both lateral growth and density were evaluated periodically by the "double-quadrat method" devised by the authors. Differences in growth among grasses were highly significant as well as the grass-by-planting-method interaction. With Bermudagrass, 100% lateral extension occurred within 30 days where 2-inch plugs were planted on 6-inch centers. In contrast, 3/4-inch plugs planted on 12-inch centers was the slowest method, requiring 10 weeks to attain 100% extension. With St. Augustinegrass the same planting methods produced, respectively, 100% extension 45 days and 9.3% extension after 5 months. For Manilagrass, 2-inch plugs planted on 6-inch centers produced 100% extension within 10 weeks. The least satisfactory growth resulted where shredded material was collected with the vertical mower (only 3.6% extension after 5 months). In addition to growth evaluations, planting treatments are compared in terms of cost of planting material and labor requirements for planting." |
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 0 |
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| Note: | This item is an abstract only
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
Nutter, G. C., and T. F. Bryan. 1957. Vegetative propagation studies with southern turf grasses. Int. Ann. Meet. p. 78. |
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