Special note to golfers: Sometimes conditions can become so oppressive on a given site that it overwhelms creeping bentgrass and causes rapid decline, despite the heroic efforts of the superintendent ...

Shade commonly reduces turf quality on golf courses. A minimum daily light integral of 30 moles of photosynthetically active radiation per square meter per day is suggested for creeping bentgrass ...

Aims The objective of this research was to evaluate bentgrass quality, growth, and disease incidence over a range of soil and tissue potassium levels. Methods 'Penn A4' creeping bentgrass (Agrostis ...

Julia Rosen has a feature over at High Country News about creeping bentgrass, a grass that was genetically modified to resist the Roundup pesticide and designed with golf courses in mind. Creeping ...

Genetically engineered bentgrass escaped its experimental field in Oregon and still causes problems for farmers, who wish the federal government would do more to regulate it. Otto Kitsinger By Julia ...

Sampling methods and results of a gene flow study are described that will be of interest to plant scientists, evolutionary biologists, ecologists, and stakeholders assessing the environmental safety ...

HOUSTON — Putting is an imperfect science. There are several factors you have to consider when reading greens: slope, wind direction, even moisture. But arguably the most important factor is one most ...

The Ager Golf Course will replace its fairway bluegrass with creeping bentgrass in an experimental program with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln turfgrass program. The Ager course, 3761 Normal Blvd.

In the failing light of an unusually warm January day, Jerry Erstrom and I race along a dirt track behind Rod Frahm’s white pickup. Here, near Ontario, Oregon, a stone’s throw from the Idaho border, ...

Burgeoning restrictions on water use, fertilization, and pesticide application are becoming important considerations in golf course design and management. In response, scientists are searching for ...