Studies In Breaking The Rest Period of Grass Plants By Treatments With Potassium Thiocyante and In Stimulating Growth With Artificial Light

Author

Harold R. Shepherd, Fort Hays Kansas State College

Department

Biology

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Abstract

There has developed a need for a practical means of artificially breaking the rest period and of stimulating the growth of grasses so that sods can be procured early in the fall before freezing weather, brought into the greenhouse, and forced early to make an abundant vegetative growth. This need suggested the study of which this paper is the report, namely to discover whether or not the rest period of native grasses can be broken by treatment with potassium thiocyanate and their growth stimulated by artificial light supplemental to winter daylight.

Keywords

Pasture ecology, Rangeland, Great Plains native grasses, Grazing, Horticulture, Potassium thiocyanate

Advisor

Dr. Fred W. Albertson

Date of Award

Spring 1938

Document Type

Thesis

DOI

10.58809/SSDV4485

Recommended Citation

Shepherd, Harold R., "Studies In Breaking The Rest Period of Grass Plants By Treatments With Potassium Thiocyante and In Stimulating Growth With Artificial Light" (1938). Master's Theses. 282.
DOI: 10.58809/SSDV4485
Available at: https://scholars.fhsu.edu/theses/282

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