Evaluation of drought tolerance and avoidance traits for six creeping bentgrass cultivars

HortScience

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 519-524

  McCann, Stephen E ^a   Huang, Bingru ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agrostis stolonifera; Drought stress; Turfgrass

Indexed keywords

AGROSTIS; AGROSTIS STOLONIFERA; POACEAE;

EID: 41149094523     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.43.2.519     Document Type: Article

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