Author: Luqi Li
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Category : Grasses
Languages : en
Pages : 65
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Buffalograss [Buchloë dactyloides (Nutt.) Engelm.] is a warm-season grass native to the North American Great Plains. Buffalograss is drought resistant, heat resistant and cold tolerant, and thus is well-adapted to many uses in areas that require low maintenance or erosion control. Since buffalograss is slow-growing, one challenge of establishing seeded buffalograss is to maximize seedling maturation and establishment before winter. We evaluated dormant seeding buffalograss in late fall and winter, when germination is not expected until soils warm in spring. We successfully dormant seeded ‘Sundancer’, ‘Bowie’ or ‘Cody’ buffalograss at 146 kg ha-1 from late November though late March, which allowed establishment before the following winter. Increasing seeding rate beyond 146 kg ha-1 had no effect on August buffalograss cover, regardless of seeding date. Buffalograss burs are commercially KNO3-treated and chilled to overcome dormancy. Our studies suggest commercial treatment of burs may not be necessary when dormant seeding, but should maximize germination when dormant seeding during exceptionally dry winters. Though established buffalograss can be maintained with minimal inputs, weed control is critical during the establishment period. We found the herbicides mesotrione, sulfentrazone, quinclorac, carfentrazone, simazine, amicarbazone, sulfentrazone + quinclorac, carfentrazone + quinclorac, or sulfentrazone + prodiamine applied either at seeding or at emergence were safe on ‘Bowie’ or ‘Sundancer’ buffalograss, effectively minimized weed pressure, and maximized buffalograss establishment.
Improving Establishment of Seeded Buffalograss
Author: Luqi Li
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Category : Grasses
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
Buffalograss [Buchloë dactyloides (Nutt.) Engelm.] is a warm-season grass native to the North American Great Plains. Buffalograss is drought resistant, heat resistant and cold tolerant, and thus is well-adapted to many uses in areas that require low maintenance or erosion control. Since buffalograss is slow-growing, one challenge of establishing seeded buffalograss is to maximize seedling maturation and establishment before winter. We evaluated dormant seeding buffalograss in late fall and winter, when germination is not expected until soils warm in spring. We successfully dormant seeded ‘Sundancer’, ‘Bowie’ or ‘Cody’ buffalograss at 146 kg ha-1 from late November though late March, which allowed establishment before the following winter. Increasing seeding rate beyond 146 kg ha-1 had no effect on August buffalograss cover, regardless of seeding date. Buffalograss burs are commercially KNO3-treated and chilled to overcome dormancy. Our studies suggest commercial treatment of burs may not be necessary when dormant seeding, but should maximize germination when dormant seeding during exceptionally dry winters. Though established buffalograss can be maintained with minimal inputs, weed control is critical during the establishment period. We found the herbicides mesotrione, sulfentrazone, quinclorac, carfentrazone, simazine, amicarbazone, sulfentrazone + quinclorac, carfentrazone + quinclorac, or sulfentrazone + prodiamine applied either at seeding or at emergence were safe on ‘Bowie’ or ‘Sundancer’ buffalograss, effectively minimized weed pressure, and maximized buffalograss establishment.
Publisher:
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Category : Grasses
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
Buffalograss [Buchloë dactyloides (Nutt.) Engelm.] is a warm-season grass native to the North American Great Plains. Buffalograss is drought resistant, heat resistant and cold tolerant, and thus is well-adapted to many uses in areas that require low maintenance or erosion control. Since buffalograss is slow-growing, one challenge of establishing seeded buffalograss is to maximize seedling maturation and establishment before winter. We evaluated dormant seeding buffalograss in late fall and winter, when germination is not expected until soils warm in spring. We successfully dormant seeded ‘Sundancer’, ‘Bowie’ or ‘Cody’ buffalograss at 146 kg ha-1 from late November though late March, which allowed establishment before the following winter. Increasing seeding rate beyond 146 kg ha-1 had no effect on August buffalograss cover, regardless of seeding date. Buffalograss burs are commercially KNO3-treated and chilled to overcome dormancy. Our studies suggest commercial treatment of burs may not be necessary when dormant seeding, but should maximize germination when dormant seeding during exceptionally dry winters. Though established buffalograss can be maintained with minimal inputs, weed control is critical during the establishment period. We found the herbicides mesotrione, sulfentrazone, quinclorac, carfentrazone, simazine, amicarbazone, sulfentrazone + quinclorac, carfentrazone + quinclorac, or sulfentrazone + prodiamine applied either at seeding or at emergence were safe on ‘Bowie’ or ‘Sundancer’ buffalograss, effectively minimized weed pressure, and maximized buffalograss establishment.
Treating Buffalo Grass (buchloe Dactyloides) Seed to Improve Its Germination and how Germination is Affected by Mulching, Type of Soil and Depth of Planting
Author: Waymond Harold Freyaldenhoven
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Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Grass Culture and Range Improvement in the Central and Southern Great Plains
Author: David A. Savage
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Category : Grasses
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Category : Grasses
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Chemical and Mechanical Treatment of Buffalo Grass (Buchloe Dactyloides) Seed to Improve Its Germination
Author: Paul O'Neal McKinley
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Languages : en
Pages : 60
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Languages : en
Pages : 60
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United States Plant Patents
Author: United States. Patent and Trademark Office
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Category : Plants, Cultivated
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Category : Plants, Cultivated
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Seed for Regrassing Great Plains Areas
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Supplement to the Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America
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Category : Administrative law
Languages : en
Pages : 1464
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Category : Administrative law
Languages : en
Pages : 1464
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Report of the Administrator of Agricultural Research
Author: United States. Agricultural Research Administration
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1406
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1406
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Breeding and Development of Seeded Turf-type Buffalograss
Author: Charles A. Rodgers
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Category : Buchloë dactyloides
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Category : Buchloë dactyloides
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Abstracts of Recent Published Material on Soil and Water Conservation
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Category : Soil conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Category : Soil conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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