Nicole Mihelich
New research publication from our team - 7/11/22
Learn more about our research! A new, open access article by Ross Braun, Eric Watkins, Andrew Hollman, Nicole Mihelich, and Aaron Patton has been published in Agronomy Journal. This journal article summarizes research on using different cool-season turfgrasses for sod and found that fine fescue sod with strong creeping red fescue may be a promising option for sod producers.
University of Minnesota Turfgrass team in the media – 1/26/22
Check out our team’s latest efforts in educating the public about our work. Several members of our group including Eric Watkins, Dominic Petrella (now an assistant professor at Ohio State University), Nicole Mihelich and Florence Sessoms were featured in a video, Fescue Research at the University of Minnesota, on GCSAATV.
Watch the video below to learn more about several different fine fescue research projects we are conducting!
Turfgrass Science Team at the 2021 ASA-CSSA-SSSA Annual Meeting
The Turfgrass Science team from the University of Minnesota was well-represented at this year’s ASA-CSSA-SSSA Annual Meeting held on November 7-10, 2021 in Salt Lake City, UT. Two of our graduate students, Nicole Mihelich and Joan Barreto Ortiz, gave oral presentations there. Below are their presentation titles and abstracts.
New research publications from our team - 10/27/21
Learn more about our research! Three research articles from our group have been published in the September/October 2021 issue of Agronomy Journal.
New research publications from our team - 10/21/21
Learn more about our research! Two research articles from our group have been published in the July/August 2021 issue of Crop Science.
Common leaf development patterns in plants can help improve turfgrasses
By Nicole Mihelich
Turfgrasses are diverse species that are of interest to researchers and consumers around the world. However, there has not been as much research conducted on turfgrasses compared to extensively studied model species and major world food crops. Investigating the developmental similarities between well-researched plants and turfgrasses can help translate insights to understand and improve turf.
Characterizing the diversity of strong creeping red fescue sod component traits in the field
By Nicole Mihelich
Fine fescue forensics
By Eric Watkins and Yinjie Qiu
This article was originally published on the Low Input Turf Using Fine Fescues blog.
Fine fescue research has progressed rapidly in recent years, spurred by greater interest in low-input turf and the availability of funding for improving these grasses. While giving talks to various groups about lawn grasses for Minnesota, we often follow the introduction of fine fescues with a refrain similar to “they all look very similar”: translation “don’t ask me how to tell the fine fescues apart!”.
Turfgrass Science Team at the 2019 ASA-CSSA-SSSA Annual Meeting
The Turfgrass Science team from the University of Minnesota was well-represented at this year’s ASA-CSSA-SSSA Annual Meeting held on November 10-13, 2019 in San Antonio, TX. Seven people gave oral presentations and five people presented posters. Additionally, congratulations go to two members of our group who placed in the graduate student oral presentation contests: