ABSTRACT
Turfgrass selection is a critical best management practice (BMP) for salt-affected sites. This chapter has sections targeted to different audiences, from the turfgrass manager (e.g., Section 9.2) to the turfgrass breeder or geneticist (e.g., Sections 9.1.2, 9.3). Signicant strides have been made in the past 10 years in providing turfgrass managers choices of more salt-tolerant grasses with improved cultivars and dening salinity tolerance of turfgrasses at the inter-and intraspecic levels. However, continued advancement will depend on careful attention to several challenging areas (Duncan and Carrow, 1999), namely, (a) appropriate salt-tolerance screening procedures capable of identifying the top salt-tolerant genotypes within a species (i.e., the top 1%) that are sustainable in eld environments, (b) identifying the multiple mechanisms responsible at the species and cultivar levels for the superior tolerance of these genotypes, and (c) enhancement of these specic mechanisms in conjunction with appropriate whole-ecosystem salt management BMPs.
