Current Research Funded by KTF In 2012 the KTF board approved funding for the projects listed below:
In 2012, the KTF board approved funding for the projects listed below:
- Compare estimates of evapotranspiration from weather station data in cool-season turfgrass. (Dale Bremer)
- Effects of irrigation management and N amounts and fertilizer types on water quality and effects of irrigation management and growth regulators on maintenance costs. (Dale Bremer)
- Screening new zoysiagrass progeny for quality, hardiness and large patch resistance. (Jack Fry)
- A new USGA project will start in 2012 in cooperation with Texas A&M and Purdue with zoysiagrass resistant to large patch disease.(Jack Fry)
- Influence of irrigation management strategy on nitrate leaching and tall fescue mowing requirements. (Jack Fry)
- Establishment of zoysia and buffalo from plugs on an erosion control mat. (Jack Fry)
- Poa trivialis: contributors to summer decline and strategies for selective and nonselective control. (Jack Fry)
- Effect of application of timing on efficacy of new postemergence broadleaf herbicides. (Steve Keeley)
- Development of an online certificate program in turf management. (Steve Keeley)
- Determine the aerification, verticutting, and sand topdressing on large patch and investigate the biology of the interaction of cultural practices and disease. (Megan Kennelly)
- Determine the effects of nitrogen source and time of application on disease development. (Megan Kennelly)
- Study the environmental conditions associated with disease development in the field. (Megan Kennelly)
- Compare large patch susceptibility of 34 new freeze-tolerant zoysiagrass genotypes. (Megan Kennelly)
- Study the effects of different preventative fungicide application timings and correlate with weather conditions to develop better guidelines for fungicide development. (Megan Kennelly)
- Ground cover evaluations. (Rodney St. John)
- Dormant seeding of cool-season grass. (Rodney St. John)
- Dormant seeding of buffalograss. (Rodney St. John)
