Phil BuseyBusey, P. 1989. Progress and benefits to humanity from breeding warm-season grasses for turf. pp. 49-70. in: D. A. Sleper, K. H. Asay, and J. F. Pedersen (eds.). Contributions from breeding forage and turf grasses. Crop Science Society of America, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
What is an herbarium specimen? An herbarium specimen also called a “collection” or a “sample” is a pressed, dried plant or plant parts suitable for storage and future reference accompanied by a label with the collector’s name, the number of
Below are listed citations of refereed scientific papers and book chapters authored or co-authored by Philip “Phil” Busey from 1971 to 2024, sorted by authors and years. Here is also a larger list of publications including non-refereed scientific papers and
Off-types in bermudagrass—genetically distinct patches differing in color, height, or texture—disrupt turf uniformity and performance on golf courses and sports fields. While sometimes called “mutations,” most off-types I’ve observed in 49 years of Florida turfgrass research are likely contaminations from
(Comment: This is adapted from a 25 Sep 2013 letter that I wrote to the Mayor and Commissioners for a friend concerned about her city’s plans to replace natural turfgrass fields with synthetic. I have since been engaged in consulting
Gestalt plant identification is fast-thinking identification based on the perception of the wholeness of form. Form is not only the size and shape of plant parts but their grouping and patterns that their shapes form in aggregate. Gestalt contrasts with
What are the basic learning goals in irrigation proficiency? Having taught for years “Landscape irrigation and design,” at Miami Dade College Kendall Campus, I find that the biggest challenge is to foster students’ quantitative understanding. Sprinkler selection, layout, and scheduling
Scientific names of plants have two words, the genus name and the species name, often called the specific epithet. Determination of the scientific name, also called the binomial, of a plant specimen is the goal of plant identification. For example,
South Florida sports field soils are generally calcareous, sand, have high (> 7.0) pH, and have insufficient potassium (K). For such soils the medium sufficiency range for turfgrass is reported as 75-175 ppm K by ammonium acetate extraction, which is
This month, I published a scientific paper in the journal HortScience showing that canopy light gaps in bermudagrass turf, in the form of divots, stimulate goosegrass seed germination and growth. It is only common sense that maintaining dense turfgrass canopy
Organic matter is the most valuable part, by weight, of soil. But organic sources in soil mixes are specified by volume which is mostly air. What is the price of the air part? What made me wonder was an 80:20