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Postemergence control of annual bluegrass with mesotrione in Kentucky bluegrass
Annual bluegrass (Poa annua L. var Hausskn Timm) is a common grass weed species in turf. A lack of environmental stress tolerance, combined with prolific seed production and a highly competitive growth habit makes annual bluegrass difficult to maintain, but also difficult to get rid of from an …
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Kentucky Bluegrass Blend Ecology
Seed size and germination differed between varieties and seedlots within varieties. Blending seed using seed weight resulted in an actual composition similar to the intended composition. Including a susceptible variety in a blend resulted in more severe rust and powdery mildew than when not …
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Common Place: collective housing in the bluegrass
This thesis proposes new housing for migrant farm workers outside of Harrodsburg, Kentucky. The housing complex deals with architecture's relationship to place and community while providing a dignified dwelling, imparting a sense of permanence and home to a constantly moving population. The complex …
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Influence of Annual Bluegrass on Putting Green Trueness and Control of Weedy Poa Species in Kentucky Bluegrass and Creeping Bentgrass Turf
Annual bluegrass (Poa annua L.) and roughstalk bluegrass (Poa trivialis L.) are among the most troublesome grass weeds on golf courses throughout the United States. Herbicides for selective control of these weeds in cool-season fairways are limited and ineffective. Methiozolin is a new isoxazoline …
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Africa, Appalachia, and acculturation: The history of bluegrass music
… primarily associated with white Southerners, bluegrass music is actually the product of over three hundred years of black and white musical interaction that occurred in the American Southeast. This document begins by reviewing the first complete definition of bluegrass music written by Mayne …
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Recreating and Deconstructing the Shifting Politics of (Bluegrass) Festivals
… from 15 festival field sites, I examine bluegrass festivals as sites of identity production through feminist methodologies and a participatory ethnographic approach. This requires careful analysis of the nature of the genre's audience and audience members' investments in the process of …
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Management of annual bluegrass and bermudagrass in creeping bentgrass greens
… by the following spring. Differences in annual bluegrass control were observed between locations. Methiozolin applications at the Rawls Golf Course exhibited 57 to 86% annual bluegrass control, regardless of application rate or timing. Control increased as applications were made later in the …
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Response of Kentucky Bluegrass and Variety Delta to Environmental Factors
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-05T22:00:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6100208.pdf: 4700563 bytes, checksum: afa280ce9ac6cf9d76210b6ff3cf0105 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1960
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Soil and plant factors associated with iron chlorosis of Kentucky bluegrass
… efficiency of different varieties of Kentucky bluegrass. In this study, 25 varieties and 5 blends of Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis L.) were utilized. Maintenance practices for all varieties were the same, and at the time of sampling the grasses were three years old, were well established, …
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Pre-sowing treatment of Kentucky bluegrass seed to accelerate field germination
Thesis (M.S.)--Michigan State University of Agriculture and Applied Science. Dept. of Farm Crops, 1960
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Phenology and Management of Annual Bluegrass Weevil on Virginia Golf Courses
Annual bluegrass weevil (Listronotus maculicollis Kirby) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) (ABW) is a major pest of annual bluegrass (Poa annua L.) and creeping bentgrass (Agrostis stolonifera L.) on golf courses in the northeastern United States. The asynchronous life cycle makes managing ABW difficult, …
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A Comparison of Bluegrass Bands: 2013 Bands Versus the 1940s-1960s Bands
<p>The present study investigated the bluegrass music genre of 2013 and compared it with bluegrass found in the 1940s and 1960s. To date, only one similar study has been identified. In 1963, L.M. Smith completed a study entitled, Bluegrass Music and Musicians: An Introductory Study of a Musical …
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Creeping bentgrass response to plant growth regulating substances and annual bluegrass competition
… becomes invaded with a persistent weed, annual bluegrass (Poa annua L.). Studies were conducted on a predominately annual bluegrass area managed as a putting green to attempt to quantify the impacts of plant growth regulator, seeding rate" and season on the success of introducing creeping …
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Some physiological aspects of selective orchardgrass control in Kentucky bluegrass with bromacil
… (Dactylis glomerata L.) from Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis L.) turf and some physiological responses of the grasses to bromacil were evaluated in field studies. Bromacil reduced photosynthesis to a greater extent in orchardgrass than Kentucky bluegrass turf. Foliage carbohydrates …
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Discover. Reveal. Educate.: Making a School for Bluegrass Music in Floyd, Virginia
… underlying premise of this thesis. A successful bluegrass conservatory must provide places for its students to engage in three occasions: Discovery, Revelation, and Education. Architectural form is significant to these occasions in that it not only allows, but promotes their occurrence. The …
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Controlled-Release Preemergence Herbicide Formulations for Annual Grass Control in Kentucky Bluegrass Turf
… (Digitaria sanguinalis (L.) Scop. in Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis (L.)) turf.
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Hip Hop, Bluegrass, Banjos, and Solidarity: Race and Class Histories in Appalachia U.S.A
… combat this, I ask, are the genres of hip hop, bluegrass, and country able to provide a reckoning of the continual racial oppression of Black people and an acknowledgement of whiteness, in Appalachia and the U.S.? I examine the historical progression of bluegrass and country, and hip hop, …
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Bluegrass, Bildung, and Blueprints: The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come as an Appalachian Bildungsroman
… of human progress that juxtaposes civilized Bluegrass society and the degraded culture of the southern mountaineer. Indicative of the Progressive Era scientific attitude toward social and cultural evolution, Fox creates a narrative that advances his theory of southern evolution in which …
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