Session: Graduate Student Oral Competition: I (2009 Annual Meeting (November 1-5, 2009))

C05 Turfgrass Science

Oral competition for turfgrass science graduate students.

Monday, November 2, 2009: 9:55 AM-12:20 PM

Convention Center, Room 315, Third Floor

Presiding:

Aaron J. Patton

12:20 PM

Adjourn

9:55 AM

Introductory Remarks

10:00 AM

The Potential for Soil Organic Carbon Sequestration in Home Lawns.
Gina Zirkle, Ohio State Univ.; Bruce Augustin, Scotts Co., The; Rattan Lal, Ohio State Univ.

Audio File Recorded presentation

10:15 AM

Turfgrass Quality Characteristics of Prairie Junegrass Germplasm Accessions.
Matthew Clark, Univ. of Minnesota; Eric Watkins, Univ. of Minnesota

Audio File Recorded presentation

10:30 AM

Metabolomic Responses of Transgenic Creeping Bentgrass Overproducing Cytokinins to Heat Stress.
Yan Xu, Rutgers State Univ.; Bingru Huang, Rutgers State Univ.; Hongmei Du, Rutgers State Univ.

10:45 AM

Break

11:00 AM

Using Sand Topdressing to Improve Native Soil Athletic Field Wear Tolerance and Surface Stability.
Alexander Kowalewski, Michigan State Univ.; James Crum, Michigan State Univ.; James A. Flore, Michigan State Univ.; John Rogers III, Michigan State Univ.; Joseph M. Vargas, Michigan State Univ.

Audio File Recorded presentation

11:15 AM

Foliar Nitrogen Uptake Efficiency of Creeping Bentgrass as Affected by Spray Volume, Adjuvants, Tank-Mixing, and Fertilizer Formulation.
Shelby Henning, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Bruce Branham, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Richard Mulvaney, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

11:30 AM

Integration of Iron Into N Fertility Regimes for Regulation of Fertilizer and Water Requirements of Penn A-Series Creeping Bentgrasses (Agrostis stolonifera L.).
Jing Dai, Pennsylvania State Univ.; Maxim Schlossberg, Pennsylvania State Univ.; Alfred Turgeon, Pennsylvania State Univ.

11:45 AM

Identification of Salt Stress Responsive ESTs From Red Fescue and Perennial Ryegrass Using PCR-Based cDNA Subtraction.
Sanalkumar Krishnan, Univ. of Rhode Island; Rebecca Brown, Univ. of Rhode Island

Audio File Recorded presentation

12:00 PM

Metabolic Responses of Transgenic Creeping Bentgrass for a Cytokinin Biosynthesis Gene to Drought Stress.
Emily Merewitz, Rutgers State Univ.; Bingru Huang, Rutgers State Univ.; Thomas Gianfagna, Rutgers State Univ.

12:15 PM

Concluding Remarks

70 Graduate Student Oral Competition: I