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Stacy A Bonos Stacy A Bonos
Assistant Professor
 Plant Biology and Pathology
Foran 284
Plant Science
59 Dudley Road
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Phone: 732-932-9711 x225
Fax: 732-932-9441
Email: bonos@aesop.rutgers.edu
Website: aesop.rutgers.edu/~plantbiopath/faculty/bonos/bonos.html
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Expertise Summary
  My main research objectives include developing improved, pest and stress tolerant cool-season turfgrasses that can be utilized in many turfgrass situations throughout the Northeast and other parts of the world. The use of turfgrass cultivars with improved stress and pest tolerance would reduce pesticide inputs and provide a safer environment for recreational activities. My research specifically involves understanding the mechanism of disease resistance in several turfgrass/pathogen interactions including dollar spot disease in creeping bentgrass, brown patch disease in colonial bentgrass, gray leaf spot and dollar spot disease in perennial ryegrass and pythium disease in velvet bentgrass. We are conducting classical genetic studies to identify the number of genes and type of gene action involved in resistance. We are also incorporating molecular markers into our classical breeding program. We have recently developed a genetic linkage map of creeping bentgrass and have identified several Quantitative Trait Loci (QTL) for dollar spot resistance. These markers can be used to improve selection efficiency and hasten the development of pest tolerant turfgrass cultivars. Other projects include: 1) developing cultivars of cool-season turfgrasses with improved salt tolerance using both field and greenhouse screening techniques, 2) developing native grass species including switchgrass for ornamental characteristics and high biomass for the Northeast US.

Research Projects
  • Integration of Molecular and Classical Breeding for Turfgrass Improvement
  • TURFGRASS BREEDING AND EVALUATION
  • Biology, Ecology and Management of Emerging Pests of Annual Bluegrass on Golf Courses

    • Selected Publications
    Evaluation of drought resistance for Texas Bluegrass, Kentucky bluegrass and their hybrids
      Journal: Crop Sci
     Authors: Abraham, E., B. Huang, S. Bonos, and W. Meyer
    Volume: 44    Pages: 1133-1137
    Date Published: 2003
    Genotype responses and plant characteristics associated with dollar spot resistance in creeping bentgrass
      Journal: Crop Science
     Authors: Bonos, S.A., M.D. Casler, and W.A. Meyer
    Volume: 44    Pages: 1763-1769
    Date Published: 2004
    Physiological indicators for drought resistance in Poa arachnifera x Poa pratensis hybrids
      Journal: Vortrage Pflanzensuchtung
     Authors: Abraham, E.M., B. Huang, W.A. Meyer, and S.A. Bonos
    Volume: 59    Pages: 301-307
    Date Published: 2003
    Ploidy Determination in Agrostis using laser flow cytometry and morphological traits.
      Journal: Crop Science
     Authors: Bonos, S.A., K.A. Plumley, and W.A. Meyer
    Volume: 42    Pages: 192-196
    Date Published: 2002
    Registration of Champagne Kentucky Bluegrass
      Journal: Crop Sci
     Authors: Bonos, S.A., T.C. Ford, W. A. Meyer and C.R. Funk
    Volume: 43    Pages: 438-439
    Date Published: 2003
    Registration of Jefferson Kentucky Bluegrass
      Journal: Crop Sci
     Authors: Bonos, S.A., T.J. Molnar, W.A. Meyer and C.R. Funk
    Volume: 43    Pages: 738-739
    Date Published: 2003
    Transgenic creeping bentgrass with delayed dollar spot symptoms
      Journal: Mol. Breeding
     Authors: Zhenfei, Guo, S. Bonos, W.A. Meyer, P.R. Day, and F.C. Belanger
    Date Published: 2003

    Patents/Intellectual Property
    Bedazzled Kentucky bluegrass
      Patent Number: Bedazzled Kentucky bluegrass
     Date Issued: 01/01/2002

     

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