Award: Fred V. Grau Turfgrass Science Award

Recipient: Stacy A Bonos

Rutgers The State University of New Jersey

Biography: Stacy A. Bonos is a Professor of Turfgrass Breeding in the Department of Plant Biology at Rutgers University. She has been on the faculty for 25 years and currently serves as the Director of the Turfgrass Breeding Program and Associate Director of the Center for Turfgrass Science. Her breeding efforts focus on the development of improved, pest resistant, and stress tolerant, turfgrasses. Her research program focuses on integrating classical genetics, genomics and phenomics into a traditional field-based turfgrass breeding program. Her team has specific research projects on breeding for disease resistance, salt tolerance and low maintenance in numerous turfgrass species. She has co-developed over 300 turfgrass cultivars and co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications.