When the world’s best soccer players make their way onto the world stage this week, chances are they’ll once again be playing on a University of Georgia-bred turfgrass.
Three of the Brazilian stadiums that will be used in the World Cup have been outfitted with TifGrand, a shade-tolerant, wear-tolerant bermudagrass hybrid developed jointly by UGA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service.
And three more World Cup stadiums are using Tifway 419, a bermudagrass variety developed in Tifton by Glenn Burton of the USDA-ARS.
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