Advances in Turfgrass Management and Physiology
A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Production".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 December 2024 | Viewed by 117
Special Issue Editors
Interests: urban agriculture; phytoremediation; nature-based solutions; turfgrass stress physiology; green roof turfs; low-maintenance turf
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Turfgrass is the only plant species to accommodate human leisure and sports activities. Maintaining a quality and stable turf is challenging, as turfgrass not only suffers environmental stresses such as high/low temperatures, drought, and flooding but also high traffic damage from human activities. Therefore, turf quality management is mainly based on the stress physiology of turfgrass species under both abiotic and biotic stresses.
This Special Issue focuses on various aspects of turfgrass management and its physiological mechanisms, including (but not limited to) the following:
- Sod production (propagation, establishment, growth, sod quality, etc.);
- Turf management for golf courses (green, fairway, tee, and rough);
- Turf management for various sports fields (soccer, football, baseball, tennis, etc.);
- Turf management for park and family lawns;
- Turf management for green roofs;
- Low-maintenance eco-turf;
- Environmental stresses (shade, salinity, heat, cold, drought, waterlogging, heavy metal toxicity, etc.);
- Biotic stresses (diseases, insects, weeds, traffic, etc.).
All articles, such as original research, opinions, and reviews, are welcome.
Prof. Dr. Zhaolong Wang
Prof. Dr. Zhimin Yang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sod production
- golf course management
- sports turf management
- green roof turfs
- eco-turf
- environmental stress
- biotic stress
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