Zoysia matrella
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Agrostology in the East China Sea
I'm spending this month at Ishigaki, located in the far south of Japan in the Ryukyu Islands. In fact, I'm a little south of Taipei, at the same latitude as Key West, Florida. Located at the boundary between the East China Sea and the Philippine Sea, these islands have a...
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Saigon, San Miguel, and Shade
Except for the superb mountain course at Dalat, with a lot of kikuyugrass (Pennisetum clandestinum) on the fairways and creeping bentgrass (Agrostis stolonifera) greens, all courses at Vietnam have been planted to seashore paspalum or bermudagrass. This is a mistake....
Zoysia matrella at left and Cynodon dacytlon at right in Singapore
Turfgrass Seminars at Singapore and Bangkok
The Asian Turfgrass Roadshow 2012 started with a seminar at Sentosa Golf Club in Singapore, host site for the European Tour’s Singapore Open. Dr. John Kaminski, with only a few hours of sleep after his travel from the other side of the world, exactly twelve time zones away, gave two lively and coffee-fueled presentations, while I spoke about turfgrass research results from projects I have been involved with in Asia over the past six years. One of those projects involves bermudagrass white leaf, which I have called the most unsightly disease in the world, and I explained how plants infected...
Yellow tuft on Penncross creeping bentgrass at Hokkaido
Yellow Tuft and Large Patch in Japan
Precipitation across much of Japan has been above average this year, and it is no surprise then to be seeing two diseases that are associated with wet growing conditions: large patch (Rhizoctonia solani) and yellow tuft (Sclerophthora macrospora). I've seen ...
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