APPLIED RESEARCH Using Plant Growth Regulators to Manage Annual Bluegrass in Creeping-Bentgrass Putting Greens By Scott McElroy, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Turfgrass Weed Science; Rodney Tocco, Graduate Research Assistant; John Sorochan, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Turfgrass Science; and Greg Breeden, Research and Extension Associate; University of Tennessee
Annual bluegrass (or just simply “Poa”) contamination in bentgrass greens is truly the pinnacle of weed problems for golf course superintendents. If you have this problem, you wrestle with how to deal with it. If you do not have it, you worry that it will become a problem. Course managers pressure you to “do something about that Poa,” and yet you know that doing something could potentially harm the bentgrass. You are experiencing firsthand the proverbial “rock” and “hard place.”
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