Performance of five turfgrasses under linear gradient irrigation

HortScience

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 893-896

  Qian, Y L ^a   Engelke, M C ^b  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Buchloe dactyloides; Cynodon dactylon; Drought resistance; Festuca arundinacea; Fungal infection; Stenotaphrum secundatum; Water requirements; Zoysia japonica

Indexed keywords

BUCHLOE; BUCHLOE DACTYLOIDES; CYNODON; CYNODON DACTYLON; FESTUCA; FESTUCA ARUNDINACEA; HYPHOMYCETES; JAPONICA; MAGNAPORTHE GRISEA; POACEAE; PYRICULARIA; PYRICULARIA GRISEA; RHIZOCTONIA; RHIZOCTONIA SOLANI; SCHEDONORUS ARUNDINACEUS; SCLEROTINIA HOMOEOCARPA; STENOTAPHRUM SECUNDATUM; THANATEPHORUS CUCUMERIS; ZOYSIA JAPONICA;

EID: 0032880150     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.34.5.893     Document Type: Article

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