Zoysiagrass (Zoysia japonica) is one of the major warm-season grasses widely utilized both at home and abroad, with excellent attributes of a very dense turf by means of slow growing underground rhizomes and rapid developing above-ground stolons, well adapted for lawns and golf turfs in the transitional and warm climatic regions, besides requiring minimal maintenance inputs. As the studies regarding zoysiagrass just got off to a late start in China, novel functional gene discovery and molecular breeding rem...