To celebrate Picnic Day, the Drakakaki Lab is giving away pistachio snacks and offering fun facts about the science of pistachios: how they are able to withstand salt and drought stress, exactly how that shell splits and more!
Scientist Shuxiao "Susan" Zhang, in the UC Davis Department of Plant Sciences, studied pistachio hulls at the anatomical and cellular levels, and found genetic links explaining hull split -- a costly problem for California growers.
