Creeping bentgrass (Agrostis stolonifera L.) is an important species to the turfgrass industry because of its adaptation for use in high quality turf stands such as golf course putting greens, tees, and fairways. Creeping bentgrass is a highly outcrossing allotetraploid, making genetic marker development dif!cult. Genetic markers anchored to miniature inverted-repeat transposable elements (MITE...

Golf course putting greens may be affected by various turfgrass pests. Fungicide applications are often necessary on either a preventive or curative basis and may target more than one disease. The initial objective of this trial was to assess the ability of various fungicides to provide curative suppression of Type II fairy ring symptoms on a creeping bentgrass (Agrostis stolonifera) putting gr...

Creeping bentgrass ( Agrostis stolonifera ) is a desirable turfgrass putting green species that susceptible to drought stress. Planting drought-resistant creeping will enhance the resilience of golf turf surfaces, lower required resource inputs, and reduce environmental impact courses. cultivar performance data during stress are needed for informed selection appropriate cultivars. We evaluated ...

Colletotrichum cereale is an ascomycete inhabitant of cool-season Pooideae grasses. The fungus has increased in frequency over the past decade as a destructive pathogen of Poa annua and Agrostis stolonifera turfgrass. Colletotrichum cereale exists as two lineages, designated clades A and B, but little is known about the distribution of these clades in natural environments, or what role these su...

Hypothesis: Stressful inter-specific competition enhances inbreeding depression. Organisms: Creeping spearwort (Ranunculus reptans L.) and its common competitor, the creeping bentgrass (Agrostis stolonifera L.). Field site: Outdoor common garden experiment at the University of Potsdam. Methods: We collected plants of 12 natural populations of R. reptans differing in mean parental inbreeding coe...

There is a risk that contaminants within wetland sediment can either be remobilized or reach the groundwater due to infiltration if the wetland is unlined. This research study assesses laboratory-based integrated constructed wetland (ICW) mesocosms operated in a temperatureand pressure-controlled environment. The wetland columns were filled with contaminated sub-soil collected from the first ce...