If you’ve ever felt the soft, barefooted tickle of an American lawn, you’ve walked on grasses developed at Rutgers. Varieties of Rutgers grass seed are everywhere, sold at Lowe’s and Home Depot and neighborhood hardware stores. They’re in our lawns, in our...
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If you’ve ever felt the soft, barefooted tickle of an American lawn, you’ve walked on grasses developed at Rutgers. Varieties of Rutgers grass seed are everywhere, sold at Lowe’s and Home Depot and neighborhood hardware stores. They’re in our lawns, in our parks and athletic fields, and even at the White House and in Yankee Stadium. The Rutgers turfgrass center has the world’s largest collection of genetic resources for the development of turfgrass. Working with about 25 seed companies, the turfgrass breeding program “coinvents” much of the top-quality grass seed sold to everyone from homeowners to commercial landscapers.
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