Michael DePew and Paul Tillman were studying turfgrass as graduate students at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, USA in 1990. During this graduate study period we envisioned a saline irrigation and turf management program; in an effort to focus on a niche area of the turf industry with an expanding future potential. As we developed the idea, this program development process took on two main areas of focus. One in which the focus was on turf qualities and turf development. The second area was a focus on soil ecology issues, e.g. how soil processes occurring in saline soils affected the growth, development, aesthetics and utilitarian functions of salt tolerant grasses.
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Depew, M.W., Tillman, P.H. (2008). Commercial Application Of Halophytic Turfs For Golf And Landscape Developments Utilizing Hyper-Saline Irrigation. In: Khan, M.A., Weber, D.J. (eds) Ecophysiology of High Salinity Tolerant Plants. Tasks for Vegetation Science, vol 40. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4018-0_18
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