The turf will be mowed to greens heights early in 1999. Seashore paspalum is a warm season grass and is very salt tolerant. This germplasm originated from the University of Georgia. Dr. Kopec has contributed plants to the overall collection, one of which is extremely salt tolerant. K.B. Marcum, Ph.D., Dennis Ray, Ph.D., and Greg Wess, graduate student.
Salt glands are instrumental in bermuda and zoysia salt tolerance.
This project will tell us. Screening Saltgrass for Turf Performance. Saltgrass is extremely salt tolerant and is a warm season grass. Over the last eight years Dr. Kopec has collected about 200 separate plants of saltgrass. One hundred of these plants have been mowed in greenhouse trials for turf-type growth habit.