Current projects
Read more about this research in the Arkansas Turfgrass Report
- Rolling and mowing frequency and mowing height effects on putting green quality and ball roll.
- Comparison of drought tolerance among several tall fescue, Kentucky bluegrass, and hybrid bluegrass varieties.
- Long term cultivation effects on the rootzone properties of a sand-based putting green.
- Developing best management practices for two new turf species, tetraploid perennial ryegrass and meadow fescue, used for overseeding.
- Soil moisture distribution throughout a sand-based rootzone as affected by various wetting agents.
- Objective evaluation of turf quality using digital image analysis.
- Irrigation frequency and wetting agent effects on the quality of a sand-based putting green.
- Comparison of bermudagrass and zoysiagrass cultivars for shade, traffic, and cold tolerance.
- Comparison of bermudagrass and zoysiagrass cultivars for color, quality, divot recovery and ball lie.
- Effects of various seed cover and erosion blanket technologies on warm-season turf establishment.
- Herbicide use on seedling zoysiagrass and seashore paspalum.
- Impact of cultivation practices and fungicide applications on large patch of zoysiagrass.
- Isolation and distribution of pathogens associated with large patch of zoysiagrass
- Influence of leaf cuticle and season on uptake of foliar fertilization of creeping bentgrass and ultradwarf bermudagrass greens.
- Cultivar evaluations via the National Turfgrass Evaluation Program (www.ntep.org)
- 2002 NTEP Bentgrass Trial
- 2006 NTEP tall fescue trial
- 2007 NTEP bermudagrass trial, including traffic tolerance
- 2007 NTEP seashore paspalum cold tolerance trial
- Cultivar evaluations of tall fescue and bluegrass through the Cooperative Turfgrass Breeders Test (http://www.ctbt-us.info/)
- 2007 Zoysiagrass cultivar evaluation
- Effects of mowing height, fertility, and growth regulator on ball lie of ‘Tifsport’ bermudagrass
- Effects of turfgrass species, entomopathogenic nematodes, and insecticides on Japanese beetle grubs
- Long-term fertility response of tall fescue to various slow-release fertilizers
- Effects of the Segway golf transporter and a standard golf cart on traffic and compaction of bermudagrass fairway turf