Creeping bentgrass putting green turf responses to two summer irrigation practices: Rooting and soil temperature

Crop Science

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1063-1070

  Fu, Jinmin ^a   Dernoeden, Peter H ^b  

^a Wuhan Institute of Botany Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGROSTIS; AGROSTIS STOLONIFERA;

EID: 67249123067     PISSN: 0011183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2135/cropsci2008.06.0312     Document Type: Article

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