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.
Cattle DNA shows up heavily in samples of wolf scat, and high levels of stress hormones appear in the tail hair of cattle. Rangeland expert Kenneth Tate co-created the research framework.
Central Valley farmers could keep their land in production by planting winter-time grains, even as California regulations reduce their allotments of groundwater for irrigation.
“Research Remix” is a new public affairs show on UC Davis radio station KDVS, co-created by Jonathan Berlingeri to interview fellow grad students and postdocs at the university.
Fourth-year undergrad Sharada Karthik won first place at the recent MANRRS conference for explaining how techniques such as CRISPR can contribute to food security.
Undergrad Jackeline Limon won a $5,000 grant from Breathe California to take soil samples from 15 Yolo County locations and measure bits of plastic pollution in them.
Ph.D. student Amanda Wong and P.I. Gail Taylor call on scientists to standardize their study of microplastics in soil to clearly understand how they impact plants in real-world agriculture.
