4TURF® IS BRED FOR BETTER GOLF-COURSE MANAGEMENT Golf courses operate to high standards. As a greenkeeper, you want the greens to play and grow perfectly, the tees to be easily maintained, and the fairways to be top quality. You also want to run an efficient golf course providing maximum play for the least cost and less use of pesticides and fertiliser. Our innovative 4turf® range is part of the solution. We bred it for the characteristics you need and for the golf course you want to manage. 4turf® is a unique turf-type tetraploid perennial ryegrass with rapid establishment, good growth in cool temperatures, and better environmental stress-tolerance against drought and disease. 4turf® – resilience and stress-tolerance as standard Diploid and tetraploid plants have ryegrasses are a technological step DLF has been breeding resilient tetraploid differing numbers of chromosomes in forward. They perform better because varieties for many years. They show their cell nuclei. Diploid plants have two they have twice as many chromosome better stress-tolerance and an improved sets of chromosomes in each cell; sets and therefore twice as much ability to recover, even in cooler tetraploid plants have four. Historically, chloroplast in each cell. The extra temperatures. perennial ryegrasses bred for amenity use chloroplast boosts chlorophyll production, have been diploid. Tetraploid perennial creating a healthier, high-energy plant. Proven performance you can trust 4turf® varieties out-perform diploid perennial ryegrasses in numerous ways. They have larger, high-energy seeds for rapid establishment even when soil temperatures are as low as 4°C. Rapid establishment reduces weed invasion, while low-temperature winter growth gives you a healthier, more resilient year-round turf. Beneath the surface, the increased root mass improves drought- tolerance and increases the efficiency with which the plant uses nitrogen.
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