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Article: Spread Out! Tillers, Rhizomes and Stolons.
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- SportsTURF
- Article date:
- August 1, 2000
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Rhizomes, stolons and tillers are the lateral stems of the turfgrass plant. By their growth an individual turfgrass plant spreads vegetatively, providing for the initiation and development of new turfgrass plants. This sideways or lateral growth thickens a turf and influences its ability to recuperate from wear and other damage. The growth of a network of rhizomes or stolons is crucial to the production of strong sod. The continued development and growth of daughter plants ensures a continuous replacement of plants which naturally senesce and die, or are damaged beyond growth by traffic, wear or other factors. Through the growth of tillers, rhizomes and stolons, turf ...