<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><xml><records><record><source-app name="HighWire" version="7.x">Drupal-HighWire</source-app><ref-type name="Journal Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kalmbacher, Rob</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Norcini, Jeff</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Chakravarty, Taraknath</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ezenwa, Ike</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Martin, Frank</style></author></authors><secondary-authors></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tissue-cultured Creeping Bluestem for Restoration of Phosphate-mined Lands</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Native Plants Journal</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2004</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2004-03-20 00:00:00</style></date></pub-dates></dates><pages><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">81-90</style></pages><doi><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">10.2979/NPJ.2004.5.1.81</style></doi><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">5</style></volume><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1</style></issue><abstract><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tissue-cultured creeping bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium var. stoloniferum (Nash) J. Wipff [Poaceae]), grown in pots containing sand tailings or overburden from a Florida phosphate mine, had shoot (4.6 g/plant [0.16 oz]), root and rhizome mass (5.2 g/plant [0.18 oz]), and vegetative tiller density (4.2 g /plant [0.15 oz]) similar to that obtained from plants started from rhizomes. Seeds of creeping bluestem germinated on mine soil but failed to grow. In the field, tissue-cultured bluestem survival averaged 88% over January, July, and October planting dates on sand tailings compared with 67% on overburden. One year after October planting, total tiller density and aboveground plant dry mass was 63.5 and 117 g/plant (2.24 and 4.13 oz), respectively, on sand tailings compared with 50 and 107 g/plant (1.76 and 3.77 oz), respectively, on overburden. Except in the October planting, soil did not affect bluestem plant diameter (mean 24.2 cm [9.5 in]). Because creeping bluestem produces few seeds, tissue culture can provide plants that establish and grow well on land after phosphate mining. Weed control will be essential to success.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>