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Author(s):Burton, Glenn W.
Author Affiliation:University of Georgia
Title:Bermudagrass Breeding - Vegetative
Source:Annual Turfgrass Research Report [USGA/GCSAA]. December 1986, p. 2-3.
Publishing Information:Far Hills, New Jersey: United States Golf Association, Golf House.
Keywords:TIC Keywords: Breeding program; Cynodon dactylon x Cynodon transvaalensis; Hybrid bermudagrasses; University of Georgia
Cultivar Names:Tifgreen
Abstract/Contents:"USGA support of Dr. Burton's work, since 1956, has been one of the most successful turfgrass research breeding projects in the history of agriculture! His improved bermudagrass varieties include Tifgreen [Tifton 328], Tifgreen II, Tifway [Tifton 419] and Tifdwarf to name but a few. His emphasis now is to try to increase winter hardiness of the Tif-turf bermudagrass hybrids that have been so well received on warm-season-grass golf courses throughout the world. Efforts to obtain new germplasm from winter hardy bermudagrasses in South Africa continues to be frustrating. Such material is obviously present in South Africa, but Dr. Burton and a co-worker Dr. Hanna have been unable to procure any of it through long distance communications although valiant efforts have been made. Eventually, someone may have to specifically travel to South Africa for this purpose. Some plants from crosses between the winter hardy Berlin bermudagrass and the most winter hardy C. transvaalensis from New Jersey trials have been developed and planted for observations during the summer of 1986. These plants will now be placed under putting green conditions and a screening procedure is planned for further winter hardiness tests. The Country Club of Blairsville, Georgia is an ideal mountain location where temperatures below 0 with little snow cover can usually be expected. A number of better quality mutants selected from Midiron bermudagrass several years ago have been maintained at Blairsville in 1985 and 1986 at two different cutting heights. They all survived the past mild winter there when temperatures were not low enough to sufficiently stress or destroy any of them. Efforts to produce an armyworm-resistant bermudagrass continue but without earth shaking progress. Dr. Bob Lynch, USDA entomologist, found a slight resistance to armyworms in one selection out of 500 plants collected mainly from South Africa, but there has been little progress in transferring this resistance to the triploid hybrids. Last summer a California landscape contractor contacted Dr. Burton regarding the establishment of bermuda turf in a large housing development. The specifications called for use of a bermudagrass that would shed no pollen. Of course, common bermudagrass pollen is one of the worst for people suffering from asthma and hay fever. However, Dr. Burton's Tif-turf bermudagrass hybrids are sterile, produce no pollen and therefore perfectly safe for use as the turfgrass cover on such projects. Again, the spin-off of research for better golf course turfs has benefitted all mankind."
Language:English
References:0
See Also:Other Reports from this USGA research project: 1983-05-005
Note:Entire contents as abstract.
ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
Burton, G. W. 1986. Bermudagrass Breeding - Vegetative. Turfgrass Environ Res. Summ. p. 2-3.
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