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.
Alessandro Ossola is studying trees in the Altadena and Palisades areas, trying to understand death, recovery and lessons for rebuilding after future wildfires.
Ph.D. student Anca Barcu has been recognized for leadership in promoting health and well-being among students, including awareness of resources and accessibility in her teaching.
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.
Mohsen Mesgaran will receive the 2026 Award of Excellence in Agricultural Research Innovation-Mid Career from AgInnovation-West for advancing early detection of high‑risk invasive species and pests.
Researchers in the Department of Plant Sciences found lab-based tissue culture leads to more somatic mutations and suggest ways to avoid this widespread problem in research settings.
