By Kristine Moncada, University of Minnesota
We are happy to announce that our WinterTurf group will be posting regular blog articles about our research on turfgrass winter stress and injury. The long-term goal of our project is to better understand turfgrass winter stresses and then identify solutions to this important problem. Our project team has educators and researchers from northern regions who are doing outreach and research in this area. Examples of topics in the blog we will be covering are:
- Remote sensing to improve knowledge of winter stresses
- Developing a winter injury prediction model and web application
- Modeling climate change and its effects
- Increasing understanding of physiological factors associated with winterkill
- Developing improved integrated snow mold management strategies
- Improving creeping bentgrass and perennial ryegrass germplasm for traits associated with superior winter hardiness
- Developing best management practices for winter damage prevention and recovery
- Determining economic impacts of winter stresses
- Outreach efforts relating to the project
With this blog, we hope to inform and engage with turfgrass managers about turfgrass winter stress solutions! To make sure you never miss our blog posts and other activities, you can follow #WinterTurf on Twitter, or follow our Twitter account @UMNTurf. You can also sign up for our WinterTurf newsletter.
For questions:
- The Project Director of this project is Eric Watkins ([email protected]), University of Minnesota
- The administrator of this blog and website is Kristine Moncada ([email protected]), University of Minnesota
This project is supported by a grant, "WinterTurf: A holistic approach to understanding the mechanisms and mitigating the effects of winter stress on turfgrasses in northern climates" (Grant number 2021-51181-35861), from the USDA-NIFA through the Specialty Crop Research Initiative.