Search For Salt Tolerant Grasses Aims To Improve Roadside Plantings
Sunday, July 6, 2008 - 19:21
in Earth & Climate
Researcher aims to identify a salt tolerance limit for native and ornamental turf grasses in hopes of finding a variety that can be used along highways without being killed when roadway salt -- mixed with melting snow -- is splashed onto the grass.
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