Scientists from the University of California, Davis, and the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom found that specialized outdoor laboratories more closely resemble what happens in nature than was previously realized.
UC Davis Chancellor Gary May met with Plant Sciences Chair Gail Taylor and a number of faculty and researchers to learn about the breadth and impact of the department, and what makes it the top-ranked Plant Sciences program globally.
In a paper Joseph Edwards, '17 Ph.D. in Plant Biology, Professor Venkatesan Sundaresan, departments of Plant Biology and Plant Sciences, and their colleagues tracked root microbiome shifts throughout the life cycle of rice plants (Oryza sativa).
The Division of Agronomy was among the first divisions established in the College of Agriculture at UC Berkeley in 1868, and among the first to relocate to the farm in Davis, California.
Is adaptation to cold environments regulated by a few genes, thousands of genes, or a specific set (or different sets) of genes each time? Ross-Ibarra and colleagues are trying to answer these questions.
The UC Davis Strawberry Breeding Program has been a huge success for California. During six decades, the program has developed more than 30 patented varieties, made strawberries a year-round crop in California, and boosted strawberry yield from just 6 tons per acre in the 1950s to 30 tons per acre today.
UC Davis plant scientists have identified an enzyme that appears to play a key role in the insect-transmitted bacterial infection of grapevines with Pierce's disease, which annually costs California's grape and wine industries more than $100 million.
Nearly all of the tomatoes grown in the U.S. for tomato sauce, paste, ketchup, juice, and other processed foods are harvested by Hanna and Lorenzen's once-scorned machine.
