You're Invited to this FREE ONLINE Event!

30th Anniversary Rutgers Turfgrass Symposium 
Advances in Turfgrass Science: Looking to the Future
Thursday, March 18, 2021 | 9:00am to 4:15pm EDT | Online | Free
The Center for Turfgrass Science at Rutgers University and the New Jersey Turfgrass Association cordially invite you to participate in the 30th Anniversary Rutgers Turfgrass Symposium. This full-day virtual event is a great opportunity to learn about the latest and greatest in turf science from the safety and comfort of your own computer. 

 
Session Talk Topics Include:
  • Application of CRISPR-gene editing and tissue culture to improve creeping bentgrass
  • New technologies for optimizing turf management
  • Applications of high-throughput plant phenotyping in turfgrass breeding
  • Decision support system - collect, analyze, deploy, and integrate edge solutions for the food and beverage industry
  • Goosegrass resistance to dithiopyr
  • Identifying the mechanism of oxadiazon resistance in goosegrass and improved understanding of PPO-inhibitor mode of action
  • Interpretations of a logistic regression model for fungicide control of dollar spot on creeping bentgrass
  • Developing turf disease control programs that are efficacious and environmentally sound


We are especially excited to have Dr. Cristobal Uauy, of the John Innes Center in United Kingdom, present the keynote address:

"Unlocking the polyploid potential of crops through genomics."  
Poster Session (3-Minute Summaries) Topics Include:
  • Physiological effects of plant-health products for improving drought tolerance and post-stress recovery in creeping bentgrass
  • Herbicide application timing affects deer-tongue grass (Dichanthelium clandestinum) control in native areas
  • Rhizobacteria inoculation and colonization for promoting plant growth in cool-season turfgrass
  • Applications of the Epichloë festucae antifungal protein, EfeAfpA 
  • Spatial distribution of dollar spot fungus in asymptomatic and symptomatic turfgrass 
  • Organic lawn clippings can feed livestock and produce food for people
  • Differential physiological responses to heat and drought stress in annual bluegrass and creeping bentgrass
  • Genetic control of eastern filbert blight resistance in F2 generation hybrid hazelnut (Corylus americana x C. avellana) populations
  • Kentucky bluegrass tolerance to traffic during summer and autumn
  • Improvements to an endophyte detection kit: A story of milk and phosphatase 
  • Metabolic regulation of γ-aminobutyric acid during heat-induced leaf senescence in creeping bentgrass
  • Understanding and optimizing sampling methods for the annual bluegrass weevil 
  • Identification of viruses that may affect virulence of dollar spot fungi
  • Genome wide association study of anthracnose disease in switchgrass
  • Comparison of Magnaporthiopsis spp. with respect to virulence on hard fescue and Kentucky bluegrass
  • Inheritance of summer patch disease resistance in hard fescue
  • Potassium effect on dollar spot of annual bluegrass
  • Influence of fungicide programming and bentgrass susceptibility on dollar spot control
To participate in this free event, you must RSVP by March 16, 2021.
Don't miss out, join us in looking to the future and Register Online Today!  
If you have any questions about this virtual turfgrass symposium, please contact Barbara Fitzgerald at Barbara.fitzgerald@rutgers.edu or 848-932-6201.
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2021 Update

The Rutgers Professional Golf Turf Management School is now accepting applications for the Fall 2021 and Winter 2022 sessions of our 2-Year Certificate Program. Whether those next offerings will be online or in-person is yet to be determined. Either way, the application process will be the same. The 3-Week Preparatory Course beginning in early January 2022 will be an online learning experience.

We intend and hope to return to hands-on training and face-to-face networking as soon as possible. In the meantime, please stay safe and healthy.
Fran Koppell
Sr. Program Coordinator 
The Rutgers Professional Golf Turf Management School
(848) 932-7471
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