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.
Amanda Wong and Gail Taylor call on scientists to standardize their study of microplastics in soil to clearly understand how they impact plants in real-world agriculture.
Faculty and grad students mentor local high schoolers as part of a national program to share what they have learned with a new generation of scientists.
By winning a scholarship to attend an ag industry conference, doctoral student Oluwatosin Adebanjo accessed holistic resources to help him become a leader in the ag sector.
Yufei Qian and team in the lab of Gail Taylor offer guidelines for breeders to improve growth and nutrition of leafy greens for controlled environment agriculture.
Grad student Ana Zepeda offers tips for disaster planners, culled from interviewing women who lead community gardens in San Juan, Puerto Rico, after Hurricane Maria.
