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College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

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My primary responsibility and research interest is breeding (applied and molecular) and cultivar development of warm- and cool-season turfgrass species for use in home lawns, athletic fields and golf courses.  This involves adopting holistic systems approach towards cultivar development, marketing and commercialization through industry collaborations; working interactively in the interdisciplinary areas of turfgrass science including turfgrass genomics, physiology, entomology, pathology, soils and socio-economics; developing high-throughput greenhouse/growth chamber phenotyping procedures to efficiently evaluate large breeding (and mapping) populations for important traits of interest including a wide range of biotic and abiotic stress tolerances.  My interests also include graduate student education and training of tomorrow's plant breeders and turfgrass professionals capable of leading a successful career in academia and/or the turfgrass industry.

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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3002 Agriculture, Land And Farm Management

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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Random Amplified Polymorphic Dna Technique

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3002 Agriculture, Land And Farm Management

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism Analysis

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction

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3002 Agriculture, Land And Farm Management

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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3002 Agriculture, Land And Farm Management

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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Punjab Agricultural University - (Ludhiana, Punjab, India)

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Punjab Agricultural University - (Ludhiana, Punjab, India)

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Pennsylvania State University - (State College, Pennsylvania, United States)

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Lowinput golf course putting green performance of finetextured inter and intraspecific zoysiagrass (Zoysia spp.)

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Drought response and minimal water requirements of diploid and interploid St. Augustinegrass under progressive drought stress

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Registration of FSA1602 St. Augustinegrass

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Construction of high-resolution genetic maps of Zoysia matrella (L.) Merrill and applications to comparative genomic analysis and QTL mapping of resistance to fall armyworm.

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Production of an interspecific hybrid between Brassica fruticulosa and B. rapa

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Interspecific Hybrids between Pembagrass and St. Augustinegrass

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Genetic variability in populations of the southern chinch bug, Blissus insularis, assessed using AFLP analysis.

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Assessment of Molecular Variation within 'Raleigh' St. Augustinegrass using Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism Markers

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American Society For Horticultural Science

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Performance of advanced breeding lines of bermudagrasses, seashore paspalum, St. Augustinegrass, and zoysiagrasses in response to shade

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Freezing Tolerance and Seasonal Color of Experimental Zoysiagrasses

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An Overview of Molecular Advances in Zoysiagrass

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Enhancing drought resistance in warmseason turfgrasses: Fourteen years of progress through a multistate collaborative project across the southern United States

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Pistil Smut Infection Increases Ovary Production, Seed Yield Components, and Pseudosexual Reproductive Allocation in Buffalograss.

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Developmental Response of St. Augustinegrass Cultivars and Experimental Lines in Moderate and Heavy Shade

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American Society For Horticultural Science

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Salmacisia, a new genus of Tilletiales: reclassification of Tilletia buchloana causing induced hermaphroditism in buffalograss.

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Multispecies genotype x environment interaction for turfgrass quality in five turfgrass breeding programs in the southeastern United States

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Low-input Performance of Zoysiagrass (Zoysia spp.) Cultivars Maintained under Dense Tree Shade

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American Society For Horticultural Science

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Stolon Growth and Tillering of Experimental Zoysiagrasses in Shade

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American Society For Horticultural Science

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Stolon Growth Characteristics and Establishment Rates of Zoysiagrass Progeny

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American Society For Horticultural Science

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Development of winter hardy, fine-leaf zoysiagrass hybrids for the upper transition zone

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Draft Genome Sequence of Salmacisia buchloana (Basidiomycota), Which Induces Hermaphroditism in Dioecious Buffalograss.

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Registration of FAES 1307 and FAES 1319 zoysiagrasses

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DALZ 1701, a thirdgeneration interspecific zoysiagrass hybrid

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Sequence-tagged high-density genetic maps of Zoysia japonica provide insights into genome evolution in Chloridoideae.

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Intergeneric hybridization between Erucastrum cardaminoides and two diploid crop Brassica species.

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Effects of Mowing and Trinexapac-Ethyl on St. Augustinegrass Sod Establishment during a Simulated Water Variance Period

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American Society For Horticultural Science

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Effects of St. Augustinegrass genotype and irrigation frequency on turfgrass quality in a subtropical environment

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'DT-1', a Drought-tolerant Triploid Turf Bermudagrass

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American Society For Horticultural Science

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Registration of 'DALSA 1618' St. Augustinegrass

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Characterizing the growth and winter survival of commercially available and experimental genotypes of St. Augustinegrass

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SUSCEPTIBILITY OF GENERA AND CULTIVARS OF TURFGRASS TO SOUTHERN CHINCH BUG BLISSUS INSULARIS (HEMIPTERA: BLISSIDAE)

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Drought response of zoysiagrass with varying leaf texture under progressive deficit irrigation

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Growth Responses of Hybrid Bluegrass and Tall Fescue as Influenced by Light Intensity and Trinexapac-ethyl

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American Society For Horticultural Science

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Registration of DALBG 1201 Hybrid Bluegrass

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Registration of 'DALSA 0605' St. Augustinegrass

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A fungal parasite regulates a putative female-suppressor gene homologous to maize tasselseed2 and causes induced hermaphroditism in male buffalograss.

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Maximizing genetic gains across agronomic and consumer preference traits in St. Augustinegrass breeding

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Genotype-by-environment interaction for turfgrass quality in bermudagrass across the southeastern United States

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Supplemental Irrigation Requirements of Zoysiagrass and Bermudagrass Cultivars

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The application of flow cytometry and a thioredoxin-like nuclear gene for breeding Poa arachnifera x Poa pratensis hybrids

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Comparison of screening methods to evaluate the response of St. Augustine grass to Magnaporthe oryzae

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Detection of DNA and Ploidy Variation within Vegetatively Propagated Zoysiagrass Cultivars

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American Society For Horticultural Science

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Performance of diploid and interploid hybrids of St. Augustinegrass under moderate shade

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Development of ent-kaurene Oxidase-Based Conserved Intron Spanning Primers for Species Identification in the Genus Poa (Poaceae; Bluegrass)

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Recovery Growth of Meyer and Experimental Zoysiagrass Progeny after Sod Harvest

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Breeding, molecular genetics and cultivar development of turfgrasses

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National Institute of Food and Agriculture - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

# organizations[]
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

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College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

# inTheNews[].label
AgriLife Research breeds new zoysia for putting greens

# etdChairOf[].label
Meeks, Meghyn (2015-05). Development and Characterization of Texas Bluegrass x Kentucky Bluegrass Interspecific Hybrids for the Southern United States. Doctoral Dissertation.