Relationship of shoot morphology between seedlings and established turf in creeping bentgrass

Canadian Journal of Plant Science

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 283-289

  Cattani, D J ^a   Miller, P R ^b   Smith Jr , S R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Creeping bentgrass; seedling; stolons; tiller density; tiller number; turf

Indexed keywords

EID: 0029783525     PISSN: 00084220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4141/cjps96-050     Document Type: Article

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