Plants continuously interact with soil microbiota. These plant-soil feedbacks (PSFs) are considered a driving force in plant community dynamics. However, most PSF information comes from inter-family studies, limited on possible causes. We studied the variation of PSFs between and within grass species identified microbes that associated observed effects. grew monocultures ten cultivars three (Lo...

Dollar spot disease, caused by the fungus Sclerotinia homoeocarpa F.T. Bennett is common on intensively managed creeping bentgrass (Agrostis stolonifera L.) and annual bluegrass (Poa annua L.), and other turfgrasses. Frequent chemical applications during the growing season are made to control this disease. Previous observations state that application of fungicides such as azoxystrobin can incre...

With the expansion of urban agriculture in many North American cities, there is a current need to evaluate the soil and urban environment to assess potential risks of metal contamination in urban grown food. In this study, a university farm, a community garden, and a brownfield located in Vancouver, BC were characterized with respect to soil metal concentrations, atmospheric deposition of metal...

For 2 years (2019–2020), a field experiment to test the activities of different fertilisation schemes on yield, colour and health status five grass mixtures for football pitches was conducted. Two were composed varieties perennial ryegrass, one mixture ryegrass Kentucky bluegrass, consisted species Lolium perenne, Festuca rubra, arundinacea Poa pratensis, seeds only variety sowed in plot. Three...

turfgrass species throughout the world, but is particularly severe on weakened or senescent annual blue­ grass (Poa annua L.) turf. Anthracnose is caused by the fungus Colletotrichum cereale (Manns, Crouch, Clarke, and Hillman), which persists in turf as a saprophyte in thatch or infected plant material. Typically, the fungus can become pathogenic and infect leaf, stem, or root tissue when an e...

study on the livestock diet is one of the main priorities in the management of rangeland in iran. so, this study was conducted to compare preference values of plant species in three age classes of kaboudeh sheep (one, three and five year old ones) in rangelands of bavanat, fars province, iran. for each age class, four sheep were selected and their grazing times from different plant species were...