Intro to Turfgrass

2. Process of water movement up through a plant, which then evaporates through the leaves into the air.
4. The energy source used and stored in the plant.
5. Grass growth is slowed dramatically under extreme temperatures.
7. The cross-fertilization (interbreeding) of two or more parents that produce offspring.
8. resistance The ability of a turfgrass to survive during periods of little or no water.
14. texture Primarily a measure of the width of the leaf blades.
16. growth Lateral stems that penetrate through the enclosing leaf sheaths and grow outside of them.
17. A measure of the number of shoots in a given area.
19. Fungi live in association with the roots of some grass plants and can help absorb phosphorus and other nutrients in very poor soils.
21. Broadleaf plants such as tomatoes and roses.
22. A measure of the light reflected by turfgrass.
23. The plant cells are saturated or swollen with water.
25. Lateral stems that grow along the surface of the ground.
26. A dicotyledon or dicot.
27. crown The principal meristematic region; an unelongated stem.
29. New shoots.
30. growth Tillers that grow vertically, developing at the crown, and emerging from within the basal leaf sheath of the old stem.

1. Species that are very similar in visual structure and physiology, however, differ in functional traits.
3. The movement of materials within a plant.
6. The release of energy from sugars.
9. Lateral stems that grow beneath the surface.
10. An increase in the number of shoots in a turf area, that spreads and gradually forms a very dense clump.
11. Tissue in the vascular system that carries water and minerals to the stems and leaves.
12. The upper, relatively flat part of the leaf.
13. The flowering part of a grass plant and is also where seeds are formed.
15. The act of combining with air.
18. The lower portion of the leaf.
20. Yellowing due to a lack of iron.
24. Primarily grasses and grasslike plants such as sedges and rushes.
27. Vascular tissue in plants that transports food manufactured in the leaves down to the stem and roots.
28. stomata (pl) Openings in the epidermis through which gases move in and out.