What is it about?
The Cameroonian flora has a very high biodiversity that remains largely unexplored. It contains many grasses that can be used for sports lawns, but are currently underutilized. In order to contribute to the improvement of the quality of sports lawns, nine local grass taxa from the agro-ecological zone with bimodal rainfall in Cameroon were evaluated for their potential forsporting use in natural lawns.
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Why is it important?
The monthly lawn characteristic data allowed for the differentiation between the means and the determination of the sports index of the taxa compared to commercialized lawn varieties. The sports index of the evaluated taxa varied: Cynodon dactylon (6.989), Eleusine indica (6.338), Sporobolus natalensis (6.301), Cynodon cf Cynodon dactylon (6.257), Eragrostis tremula (5.939), Sporobolus pyramidalis (5.583), Agrostis rupestris (5.335), Axonopus compressus (4.991), and Digitaria sp. (4.544).
Perspectives
Writing this article was a great pleasure as it has co-authors with whom I have had long standing collaborations. Our results show that these grass taxa have potential for sporting use in lawn mixtures at different levels of sports disciplines.
Dr Carine TEMEGNE NONO
University of Yaounde I
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This page is a summary of: Sporting Usefulness Potential of Nine Local Taxa of Grasses for Lawns in the Agro-Ecological Zone with Bimodal Rainfall in Cameroon, American Journal of Plant Sciences, January 2023, Scientific Research Publishing, Inc,,
DOI: 10.4236/ajps.2023.148056.
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