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Poa pratensis (Kentucky blue grass) is a cool-season grass crop, important both for turf and fodder purposes. Since it tolerates foot traffic and provides a tight, firm surface, Poa pratensis is widely used for the maintenance of athletic fields and golf courses in Canada, the USA, and Europe (Beard 1973). The fodder cultivars are characterized by their high dry matter production. In nature, wild-type Kentucky blue grasses were originally found in Europe and Asia. It is nowadays a common species throughout the cool-season areas in both the North and South hemispheres. The grass is present at both high and low latitudes, and grows on both moist and dry soils. The accumulation of dry matter, and tillering and height growth of various ecotypes have been shown to be strongly adapted to their place of origin (Aamlid 1992). An improved relative growth rate of, e.g., high-latitude ecotypes, has been accomplished by the application of longer photoperiods (Heide et al. 1985).
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Nielsen, K.A. (1996). Regeneration of Plants from Protoplasts of Poa pratensis L. (Kentucky Blue Grass). In: Bajaj, Y.P.S. (eds) Plant Protoplasts and Genetic Engineering VII. Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry, vol 38. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-09368-9_11
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