Mowing height and nitrogen rate affect turf quality and vegetative growth of common carpetgrass

HortScience

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 760-762

  Bush, Edward W ^a   Owings, Allen D ^a,b   Shepard, Dennis P ^a,c   McCrimmon, James N ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Louisiana Coop Extension Service   (United States)

^c Novartis Crop Protection Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Axonopus affinis; Lawn fertility; Weed competition

Indexed keywords

AXONOPUS AFFINIS; AXONOPUS FISSIFOLIUS; POACEAE;

EID: 0033916454     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.35.4.760     Document Type: Article

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