USDA Grants $3.8 Million for AgriLife's Turf Improvement Study
October 29, 2010| |
The Texas AgriLife Research and Extension Center in Dallas has been awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture with $3.8 million grant for developing, enhancing, and commercializing turfgrasses with tolerance to drought and salinity. The Dallas center, together with four other universities will conduct a five-year study using five species of grasses for the southern U.S. Dr. Ambika Chandra serves as the prinicipal investigator of the study. According to USDA, this grant was one of the 28 programs awarded in 19 states.
"As an agricultural commodity, turfgrass is not a food, fiber or animal feed; however, it impacts the lives of millions of people in many different ways, including their physical and mental health and social well-being," the project's abstract states. The project "will significantly increase the productivity, sustainability and the economic gain of not only the individual state turfgrass programs, but the overall turfgrass industry."
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