University of Minnesota

A new transatlantic partnership for winter turf research is now taking shape as researchers in Scandinavia and the United States join forces through the new AURORA GREEN project.

Over the years, our team at the University of Minnesota has spent significant effort trying to figure out how to make perennial ryegrass more winter hardy.

With the close of the year, we are taking a moment to reflect on the significant strides the WinterTurf project has made toward solving the challenge of winterkill.

Previous methods of sampling in acclimation studies can underestimate the timing, magnitude, and diversity of acclimation responses. Including a time-course approach not only improves detection of short-lived regulatory compounds but also strengthens the interpretation of downstream metabolomic patterns, leading to a more complete view of metabolic strategies associated with winter survival.