T HIS is the third report on the registration of varieties and strains of bermudagrass {Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.). 3 TIFGREEN BERMUDAGRASS (Reg. No. 5) Tifgreen is a Fi hybrid between a fine-textured common bermudagrass (2n=36), a selection from a putting green on the Charlotte Country Club, Charlotte, N. C, and a fine-leafed Cynodon transvaalensis Burtt-Davy (2n=18). This hybrid is a completely sterile triploid (2n;=27) and must be propagated vegetatively. Tifgreen was developed at Tifton, Ga., and released cooperatively by the Georgia Coastal Plain Experiment Station and the Crops Research Division, ARS, USDA. The hybrids were made in 1951 and were tested until 1956 when the hybrid carrying the test number Tifton 328 was released under the name Tifgreen.
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