CAVALIER ZOYSIAGRASS - is a vegetatively produced, fine-textured high density turf, with long slender leaves noted specifically for high quality, uniformity of appearance and distinct summer presentation. Cavalier has excellent shade tolerance, moderate to low water use and good salt tolerance. Cavalier is suitable for sports fields, golf course fairways, tee boxes and home lawns. It was specifically adapted for use in the mid-west, the transition zone and throughout the southern U.S. Cavalier can be established from plugs, sprigs, or as solid sod. Cavalier is considered intermediate in irrigation requirements and will require weekly irrigation during prolonged dry periods. Its limitations include a tendency to thatch under high fertility, moderate susceptibility to Brown patch, and is susceptible to zoysiagrass mite. It is resistant to tropical sod webworm, fall armyworm, and tawny mole cricket. It is also resistant to Pythium blight. This product is covered by an exclusive license agreement, and requires payment of royalties to the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station. To link to a list of licensed producers, please go to http://dallas.tamu.edu/turf/cavalier.html.

CROWNE ZOYSIAGRASS - is a coarse-textured vegetatively produced zoysia developed for the hot dry summers of the southern mid-west, yet well adapted for use in the upper mid-west with its excellent cold hardiness. Crowne is noted for its drought tolerance, low water use, cold hardiness, rapid recuperative ability and excellent competition against weed invasion. Crowne is suitable as a warm season Turfgrass for golf course roughs, home lawns, industrial parks, and highway right-of-ways throughout the central mid-western states. Crowne is classified as having low irrigation needs, requiring 1-2 deep irrigations per month during dry periods. Higher irrigation frequency will provide excellent quality turf, but may also demand additional fertilization. Crowne was developed as a cold hardy, warm season grass with reasonable shade tolerance and low water use for most Texas Lawns, especially in areas where water restrictions are frequently imposed. This product is covered by an exclusive license agreement, and requires payment of royalties to the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station. To link to a list of licensed producers, please go to http://dallas.tamu.edu/turf/crowne.html.

DIAMOND ZOYSIAGRASS - is a fine textured, high density vegetatively-propagated zoysia designed for use around putting greens and tee boxes on golf courses, and generally high maintenance turf areas desiring special appeal. Its best use will be in the southern transition zone of the United States, Caribbean and sub-tropical and tropical areas. Diamond has superior shade and salinity tolerance with good resistance to the tawny mole cricket and fall armyworm. Diamond is grown from sprigs or stolons and covers relatively slowly. It may take as long as 12 to 15 months to establish completely. The fine texture, excellent sod strength, and excellent salinity tolerance makes Diamond an ideal candidate for use in areas where brackish and effluent waters are being used. This product is covered under an exclusive license agreement and requires payment of royalties to the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station. To link to a list of licensed producers, please go to http://dallas.tamu.edu/turf/diamond.html.

PALISADES ZOYSIAGRASS - is a vegetatively produced medium broad textured high-density turf noted specifically for Turfgrass suitable for home lawns, golf fairways and roughs, sports fields, industrial parks, and highway medians. Palisades is noted for its shade tolerance and low water use requirements. Palisades can be established as sprigs, plugs or as solid sod. It is classified as having low irrigation needs, requiring 1-2 deep irrigation per month during dry periods. This product is covered under an exclusive license agreement and requires payment of royalties to the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station. To link to a list of licensed producers, please go to http://dallas.tamu.edu/turf/palisades.html.

REVEILLE HYBRID BLUEGRASS - is a brand new hybrid Turfgrass, crossing a native Texas bluegrass and Kentucky bluegrass. Reveille is especially suited to central Texas and southern Oklahoma, and thrives where Kentucky bluegrass can't survive the heat and sun. Reveille has an appealing green color, medium texture, is heat and full sun tolerant, cold hardy, and has resistance to fall armyworm, and moderate resistance to rust and white grub. Reveille establishes easily from sod, but avoid saline conditions. Reveille is covered under PVP and licensed under an exclusive agreement with Gardner Turfgrass, Inc. For inquiries contact Sam Peterson at Sam.Peterson@GardnerTurf.com or call 940-437-9911.

For additional information on Reveille, go to http://dallas.tamu.edu/Reveille/

ROYAL ZOYSIAGRASS is a zoysia matrella hybrid that is vegetatively propagated and genetically stable and uniform. Royal is distinguished from other zoysiagrasses by its fine texture, high rhizome and tiller density, excellent salt tolerance, shade tolerance, and rapid regrowth and rapid recovery from damage. Royal tolerates close and frequent mowing, suggesting a potential commercial value as turf for golf course fairways, tee boxes and green surrounds under either full sun or moderate shade. Royal generally has sufficient winter hardiness to be used in open areas across the mid-transition states. Royal has good defensive traits. While it lacks resistance to fall armyworm and tawny mole cricket, it is highly tolerant to zoysiagrass mite and is moderately tolerant to tropical sod webworm. It also has good resistance to Rhizoctonia solani blight disease. Other merits of Royal include excellent fall color retention, good genetic color, and early spring green up.

Royal will be protected under a plant patent. Royal is licensed exclusively in Texas to Turfgrass Producers of Texas. For purchase information, contact John Cosper, Executive Director of TPOT at jcosper@wcnet.net or by phone at 979-282-9305. Royal is licensed exclusively in the states of Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee by Winstead Turf Farms. For additional information is these states, contact Bobby Winstead at 800-624-8873.

For information regarding licensing of Royal in other states, contact Janie Hurley jhurley@tamu.edu at the Technology Licensing Office of Texas A&M University.

ZORRO ZOYSIAGRASS (Officially released 10/2002) - Zorro Zoysiagrass is a fine textured vegetatively propagated clone of a Z. matrella seedling and is noted specifically for its good tolerance to low light conditions, high turf quality, rapid recuperative ability and resistance to several insect, mite, and disease pests. The Texas Agricultural Experiment Station released Zorro in May of 2002. Zorro tolerates close and frequent mowing and will be suitable for use as a warm-season turf for sports fields, buffer surrounds for bentgrass greens, tee boxes and fairways on golf courses and residential and industrial lawns under either full sun or moderate to heavy shade across the southern United States. It has sufficient winter hardiness to be used in open areas south of the Missouri River Valley and the Appalachian Mountain Range. Zorro is noted for its excellent salt tolerance, its ability to cope with temperature extremes and its low fertility and moisture requirements. Zorro will be especially suited in sunny or shaded areas where rust, yellow patch, brown patch, billbugs, and fall armyworms are a problem. Zorro is a fine textured, highly rhizomatous, vegetatively propagated, zoysiagrass with excellent turf quality.

Zorro is licensed exclusively throughout the United States to Turfgrass America. For more information on sub-licensing or to purchase Zorro Zoysiagrass, contact Turfgrass America at 888-New Grass or visit their website at www.turfgrassamercia.com.

‘TEJAS’, tested as Syn 1, is a Texas Bluegrass (Poa arachnifera) and is characterized as a highly rhizomatous, dioecious, perennial cool-season grass native to southern Kansas, Oklahoma, western Arkansas, and most of Texas. ‘Tejas’ Texas Bluegrass has a very broad genetic base. It consists of 25 different plants from 10 different ecotypes that were collected in 7 different Texas counties and evaluated at the Texas A&M Research and Extension Center at Dallas. ‘Tejas’ has been evaluated for forage yields at Dallas, Temple, Overton, Stephenville, and the Red River Station of the Noble Foundation. ‘Tejas’ has had yields averaging from 2 tons to 2.5 tons of dry matter per year and has stand survival better than crested wheatgrass, Indian ricegrass, Matua prairiegrass, pubescent wheatgrass, Russian wildrye, several tall fescues, tall wheatgrass, and smooth bromegrass. As a turfgrass, it has acceptable turf quality and can equal Reveille during late summer. Applicable plant patents and/or PVP will be applied for ‘Tejas’. This variety was developed under a Research Support Grant provided by Gardner Turfgrass, Inc., who will have the first right to negotiate an exclusive licensing agreement with the Technology Licensing Office of Texas A&M University. Licensing discussions are in process and commercial availability will be determined in the near future. For additional information, please contact the Texas Foundation Seed Service.