Enhancement efforts concentrate on improved seed germination, seedling vigor, seedling and mature plant drought resistance, forage and seed yields, and resistance to pests of specific temperate grasses such as Snake River, thickspike, bluebunch slender, and western wheatgrasses, Basin wildrye, Indian ricegrass, green needlegrass, sleepygrass, and bottlebrush squirreltail. Publications Jones, T. A., R. C. Buckner, L. P. Bush, R. A. Chapman, P. B. Burrus, II, and D. R. Varney. Association of the endophytic fungus, Epichloe typhina, with loline alkaloid content of tall fescue. Abstr., p. 126. Jones, T. A., R. C. Buckner, L. P. Bush, R. A. Chapman, P. B. Burrus II, and D. R. Varney.
Plant disease plays a role in poor performance of cattle during summer.
March, p. 1. Cooperative Extension Service, Univ. Kentucky, West Kentucky substation, Princeton. Jones, T. A., R. C. Buckner, and D. R. Varney. Abstr., p. 133.