Maranda Berger Morrow won the Turfgrass Water Conservation Poster Competition in San Antonio at the International ASA CSSA and SSA meetings Nov 10-13. Berger Morrow is an MS advisee of Ed Nangle and Dominic Petrella, turfgrass faculty at ATI has been working on her project using biological products to enhance tolerance to water deficit stress in turfgrasses on the newly constructed research green at ATI.
Her poster was titled ‘Bacterial Biostimulants Efffect on Creeping Bentgrass: Examining Root Elongation in Response to Decreasing Water Potential and she was competing against students from all around the United States for the award. Berger Morrow also took part in the oral presentation along with another advisee Tyler VanLandingham who had a poster and presentation during the week. In a first for ATI turfgrass faculty the award is a prestigious one and the poster is hung on campus for those who might want to view it.
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