Perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne) is found in lawns all across the United States. In cooler climates, it's a popular cool-season turf grass for permanent lawns. In warmer climates, it's often ...

Anyone living somewhere with a cool and mild climate such as the Pacific Northwest probably knows the beauty of a lush green perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.) lawn. Homeowners love this grass ...

A friend of mine asked me if they could plant ryegrass instead of fescue for their lawn. They haven’t had much luck with fescue, and somebody had recommended perennial ryegrass as a substitute that ...

The goal of plant breeding is to effectively and efficiently select for the best phenotypes leading to the development of improved cultivars. The objectives for this review are to describe and ...

As cool weather approaches in the southern part of the U.S., lawn care changes. Warm-season grasses get ready for their long ...

Whole-genome sequences established for model and major crop species constitute a key resource for advanced genomic research. For outbreeding forage and turf grass species like ryegrasses (Lolium spp.) ...

In this 2007 photo from The Times-Picayune archive, longtime season ticket holder Edgar Cretin, 80, of Covington trims the giant fleur de lis in his front yard that he planted from winter rye grass ...

Fescue anyone? That’s what they probably have said to each other at St. Andrews before offering up the challenge of a round of golf. Worldwide, there are many applicable uses for the six types of fine ...

HARRISBURG -- In Oregon's rye-grass country, this is a beautiful time to go home again. The spring grass carpeting the floor of the Willamette Valley is emerald green. The farm where I lived and ...