Growth and Quality Changes of Creeping Bentgrass by Application

Young-Sun  Kim12   Tae-Soon  Lee2   Sung-Hyun  Cho1   Geung-Joo  Lee2,*   

1Hyosung O&B Co. Ltd.
2Department of Horticultural Science, Chungnam National University

Abstract

This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of liquid fertilizer containing humic acid (LFHA) on changes of creeping bentgrass quality and growth. Treatments were designed as follows; control fertilizer (CF), HA-1 (CF+1 ml m-2 LFHA), HA-2 (CF+2 ml m-2 LFHA), and HA-3 (CF+4 ml m-2 LFHA). As compared with CF, soil chemical properties and chlorophyll content of clipping of LFHA treatments were not significantly different. Visual quality in both of HA-2 and HA-3 treatments was higher than that of CF treatment from September to November, and clipping yield on October 27. Shoot density, root length, and the content of nitrogen, phosphorus or potassium were increased by application of LFHA. The clipping yield was positively correlated with phosphorus content, potassium content or shoot density. Similarly, LFHA level was proportionate to clipping yield of creeping bentgrass, and N, P, K contents in the leaf tissue. These results generally demonstrated that the application of LFHA improved the growth and quality of creeping bentgrass by increase of N content or P in leaf tissue.

Acknowledgements

This research was financially supported by the Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy (MOTIE), Korea, under the “Regional Specialized Industry Development Program (Project No. R0005312)” supervised by the Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology (KIAT).

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