Astrid Volder and Rachel Noon are collecting all kinds of data from both young and mature almond rootstocks to develop a model for below-ground management.
Randi Famula, lab manager of the UC Davis Strawberry Breeding Program, earned campus-wide recognition for her high standards in running the facility overseen by breeding program Director Mitchell Feldmann.
Nazmin Akter is testing lower night-time temperatures to harden tomato seedlings ahead of transplanting them into farm fields. She's a Ph.D. student in Laura Cammarisano's Controlled Environment Agriculture Lab.
Maeli Melotto attended a United Nations event in China charting a framework for sustainable agri-food systems. Her work on pathogen-resistant lettuce and its soil microbiome won two USDA grants of nearly $1.5 million.
Doctoral student Marco Castaneda Martinez won the inaugural Betsey Landis Award from the California Native Plant Society, including a $1,500 grant, for research on purple needlegrass, California's state grass.
Students in the Brummer and Potter labs are looking at plant genetics and wild relatives to find and develop alfalfa cultivars that produce even when water is scarce and increase overall yield.
Louise Ferguson and colleagues in Spain discussed their research on ways to collect pollen from pistachio trees and how to apply it most efficiently for artificial pollination.
UC Davis hosted the first-ever Strawberry Nursery Congress, an international event for nursery operators, University of California researchers and growers, with the aim of strengthening partnerships.
Kent Bradford’s population-based threshold model says data that falls on either side of the statistical average, or mean, is not "noise" at all, but rather offers a goldmine of scientific insight.
