Offered Papers Theme A: Efficient Production from Grassland
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Japanese lawn grass (Zoysia japonica), which dominates in grazed semi-natural grasslands in Japan, is being reconsidered recently, because of its high adaptability to poorer conditions and its aggressive creeping habit in open fields. Zoysia has a unique potential for indeterminate multiple-node generation in the stolon tip and differential tiller formation at two tillering sites of every multiple-node (Ta in the bottom node and Tb in the mid-part), so that it displays contrasting behaviour in stolon extension and aerial tiller production in various situations (Ito et al., 2003). In this study, we examined the population structure of various tillering modules of Zoysia clones in a dense sward.
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An Eco-Morphological Examination of Tiller and Stolon Dynamics in a Zoysia japonica Sward
Japanese lawn grass (Zoysia japonica), which dominates in grazed semi-natural grasslands in Japan, is being reconsidered recently, because of its high adaptability to poorer conditions and its aggressive creeping habit in open fields. Zoysia has a unique potential for indeterminate multiple-node generation in the stolon tip and differential tiller formation at two tillering sites of every multiple-node (Ta in the bottom node and Tb in the mid-part), so that it displays contrasting behaviour in stolon extension and aerial tiller production in various situations (Ito et al., 2003). In this study, we examined the population structure of various tillering modules of Zoysia clones in a dense sward.
