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.
Research from the lab of Dan Kliebenstein shows the fungus that causes grey mold "tastes” the difference between a strawberry and a tomato to tailor attacks on each plant's chemical defenses.
Salmonella somehow induces the production of a chemical hormone called auxin, which gives a kind of false “all-clear” signal that causes the poor plant to open its gates and let the squatter in.
A new variety of wheat without some of the glutens that cause allergic reactions, such as celiac disease, has been developed by scientists in the UC Davis Department of Plant Sciences.
