Citation:

EC Holt, D Enkerlin. 1980. The biology and breeding of warm-season grasses for pest resistance. Pages 458-469. In: Biology and Breeding for Resistance to Arthropods and Pathogens in Agricultural Plants. MK Harris (editor). The Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, College Station, Texas and University of California, Agency for International Development, Pest Management Project, Berkeley CA USA, 605 pages.

Keywords: plant breeding, bufflegrass Cenchrus ciliaris, chinch bug Blissus insularis, St Augustine grass, smooth bromegrass Bromus inermis, Pyrenophora bromi, Selenophoma bromigena, crown rust Puccinia coronata, Stenotaphrum secundatum, insect pest, plant pathogen, Rhynchosporium orthosporum, Poa pratensis, powdery mildew Erysiphe graminis, Trichometasphaeria turcica, Lolium multiflorum, Festuca arundinacea, purplae leafspot Stagonospora arenaria, orchard grass Dactylis glomerata, Digitaria

decumbens, Puccinia oahuensis, Pyricularia grisea, Mucospherella tassiana, Rhizoctonia solani, Pangola stunt virus, Sorghum arundinacea, Helminthosporium, Sclerospora sorghi, ustilago syntherismae, breeding methods, sources of germplasm