part Section I: Turfgrass Management/Maintenance-Related Issues -- chapter 1 Preference of Golf-Course Operators for Various Turf Varieties and Their Perceived Importance of Selected Problems in Turf Maintenance -- part Section II: Turfgrass Growth, Management and Cultural Practices -- chapter 2 Carbon Metabolism in Turfgrasses -- chapter 3 Warm-Season Turfgrass Fertilization -- chapter 4 Growth Responses of Bermudagrass to Various Levels of Nutrients in the Culture Medium -- chapter 5 Weed Management in Warm-Season Turfgrass -- chapter 6 Weed Management Practices Using ALS-Inhibiting Herbicides for Successful Overseeding and Spring Transition -- chapter 7 Management of Tropical Turfgrasses -- chapter 8 Turfgrass Culture for Sod Production -- part Section III: Sports-Turf Management -- chapter 9 Culture of Natural Turf Athletic Fields -- part Section IV: Turfgrass Growth Regulators: Promoters and Inhibitors -- chapter 10 Applied Physiology of Natural and Synthetic Plant Growth Regulators on Turfgrasses -- part Section V: Turfgrass Breeding, Genetics, and Biotechnology -- chapter 11 Breeding Turfgrasses -- part Section VI: Turfgrass Growth Disorders, Pathology, Diseases, and Turf Disease Management and Control -- chapter 12 Nutritional Disorders of Turfgrasses -- chapter 13 Biological Control of Turfgrass Fungal Diseases -- chapter 14 Current Understanding and Management of Rapid Blight Disease on Turfgrasses -- chapter 15 A Review of Dead Spot on Creeping Bentgrass and a Road Map for Future Research -- part Section VII: Turfgrass Integrated Pest Management -- chapter 16 Herbicide Formulation Effects on Effi cacy and Weed Physiology -- chapter 17 Techniques to Formulate and Deliver Biological Control Agents to Bentgrass Greens -- chapter 18 Biological Control of Some Insect Pests of Turfgrasses -- chapter 19 Microbial Control of Turfgrass Insects -- chapter 20 Integrated Pest Management of White Grubs -- chapter 21 Biology and Management of the Annual Bluegrass Weevil, Listronotus maculicollis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) -- chapter 22 Understanding and Managing Plant-Parasitic Nematodes on Turfgrasses -- part Section VIII: Turfgrass Management and Physiological Responses under Environmental Stress Conditions -- chapter 23 Acid Soil and Aluminum Tolerance in Turfgrasses -- chapter 24 Relative Salinity Tolerance of Turfgrass Species and Cultivars -- chapter 25 Physiological Adaptations of Turfgrasses to Salinity Stress -- chapter 26 Salinity Issues Associated with Recycled Wastewater Irrigation of Turfgrass Landscapes -- chapter 27 Turfgrass Drought Physiology and Irrigation Management -- chapter 28 Shade Stress and Management -- chapter 29 Cold-Stress Physiology and Management of Turfgrasses -- chapter 30 Cold-Stress Response of Cool-Season Turfgrass: Antioxidant Mechanism -- chapter 31 Responses of Turfgrass to Low-Oxygen Stress -- chapter 32 Identifi cation of Turfgrass Stress Utilizing Spectral Refl ectance -- chapter 33 Enhancing Turfgrass Nitrogen Use under Stresses -- part Section IX: Turfgrass Management and Physiological Issues in the Future -- chapter 34 Saltgrass (Distichlis spicata), a Potential Future Turfgrass Species with Minimal Maintenance/Management Practice Requirements -- chapter 35 Native Grasses as Drought-Tolerant Turfgrasses of the Future -- chapter 36 The History, Role, and Potential of Optical Sensing for Practical Turf Management.