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Affects drought tolerance, cold hardiness, and disease resistance. Important in maintaining turgor pressure in plants. Affects rate of seedling development, maturation, and root growth.Īctivates enzymes used in protein, sugar, and starch synthesis. Affects shoot and root growth, density, color, disease resistance, and stress tolerance.Ĭomponent of nucleic acids, membranes, adenosine triphosphate, and several coenyzmes. Ross, Plant Physiology, 2nd ed., (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing,1978).Ĭomponent of nucleic acids, amino acids, proteins, chlorophyll, and coenzymes. Epstein, Mineral Nutrition of Plants: Principles and Perspectives (New York: John Wiley, 1972) and F. Marschner, Mineral Nutrition of Higher Plants (New York: Academic Press, 1995) E. Functions of the essential mineral nutrients.* Nutrient The best way to assess nutritional requirements of turf is through soil testing, tissue testing, or both. Ideally, fertilizer should be applied before deficiencies occur. Deficiencies can also appear as a thinning of the stand, stunted growth, and increased susceptibility to disease. The most obvious is a reddening or yellowing of leaf tissue. The primary functions of the essential mineral nutrients are presented in Table 2.ĭeficiencies of nutrients in turfgrass plants can be expressed in numerous ways. Regardless of how large a role each nutrient plays, all are needed for the plant to develop normally. Some nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorus, affect many important plant functions, whereas others may only activate a few chemical reactions. In some cases, ranges are based on general observations and not necessarily applicable to all turfgrasses or every growing condition or management situation.Įach of the 16 essential nutrients has specific roles or functions in turfgrass plants. Epstein, Mineral Nutrition of Plants: Principles and Perspectives (New York : John Wiley, 1972). Marschner, Mineral Nutrition of Higher Plants (New York: Academic Press,1995) and E. Jones, 'Turf Analysis,' Golf Course Management, 48, no. Values were obtained from publications by J. **Sufficiency ranges are expressed as percentages or parts per million (ppm) on a dry weight basis. *Bold type indicates the form more commonly available to turfgrasses. The exact amounts of needed nutrients vary among species, cultivars, soil moisture contents, and time of year hence, the amounts listed under “sufficiency range' should not be used as indicators of deficiencies or excessive concentrations. Table 1 lists the 16 essential nutrients, the form in which grass plants are able to use them, and the approximate amounts of each found in healthy turf. Exceptions are if turfgrasses are planted in soils high in sand content, such as golf course putting greens, or if iron applications are used to provide a darker green turf without stimulating excessive foliar growth. The micronutrients iron, manganese, zinc, boron, copper, molybdenum, and chlorine are required only in minute amounts and are rarely supplied to turfgrasses through fertilization. Calcium, magnesium, and sulfur, the secondary nutrients, are needed only occasionally in the form of fertilizer or lime. Nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium are referred to as primary nutrients and are supplied periodically to turf through fertilizer applications. They are never deficient in turfgrasses because they are derived from carbon dioxide (CO 2) and water (H 2O). Carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen make up about 90 to 95 percent of the plant's dry weight. These nine nutrients-carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, calcium, magnesium, and sulfur-are called macronutrients. Nine of the 16 required nutrients are needed in much larger quantities than the other seven. Thus, a calcium deficiency can be just as detrimental to the plant as a lack of nitrogen, even though turfgrasses use more nitrogen than calcium. Regardless of the amount required, a deficiency of any of these nutrients will limit the growth and development of your turf.

Some nutrients are needed in large amounts, other nutrients only in minute quantities. Turfgrasses require at least 16 nutrients for normal growth and development.

Successful turf maintenance fertilization requires that you assess your turf's nutritional requirements, understand fertilizers, know how much to apply and when, and use proper application techniques. Proper fertilization practices produce a dense, medium- to dark-green turf that resists pests and environmental stresses.Ĭareless application techniques or excessive amounts of fertilizer applied at the wrong time of year can result in serious turf damage and contamination of water resources.

Dollar for dollar, fertilization does more to improve poor-quality turfgrass or maintain good-quality turfgrass than any other management practice.

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