Current Horticulture
Year : 2013, Volume : 1, Issue : 1
First page : ( 11) Last page : ( 13)
Print ISSN : 2347-7377.

Tifdwarf green terminators: off-types

Singh Bhupendra

Delhi Golf Club Ltd, Dr Zakir Hussain Road, New Delhi, 110 003

Assistant Golf Course Superintendent, Delhi Golf Club Ltd, Dr Zakir Hssain Road, New Delhi, 110 003, E-mail: bhupendra.golf@gmail.com

Online published on 21 March, 2016.

Abstract

The golf ball had been rolling on the Tifdwarf greens since April 1965 when it was officially released by the U S Department of Agriculture and the Georgia Coastal Plain Experiment Station. Tifdwarf grass was born as an ‘offtype’ from Tifgreen (T-328) which itself is a 27 chromosome hybrid turf grass released in 1956. Tifdwarf was first discovered by an Agronomist James B. (Monty) Moncrief as a small circular patch from a golf green of Tifgreen which was under evaluation before its release. Since then Tifdwarf has been used extensively as warm season putting green grass around the world. However in older greens of Tifdwarf, issues of mutations and offtypes have always been associated with it. Also today new ultradwarf Bermuda grass varieties are available which claim to offer faster putting greens. This paper analysis the tendency of Tifdwarf grass mutation and its effects on the golf putting greens.

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Keywords

Mutation, Mutants, Off-types, Tifdwadf green terminator, Tifgrass, Turf grass.

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