A $2M USDA grant will fund research on grazing sheep in organic orchards to boost soil health, cut costs, and control pests. The UC Davis-led team will also create safety guidelines to address contamination concerns.
A UC Davis study reveals that climate change and drought are shifting the range of white pine blister rust disease. The disease is expanding into higher elevations in the Sierra Nevada, threatening pine species like whitebark pine.
Professor and Chair of the Department of Plant Sciences
Faculty
Department Chair
Plant systematics; taxonomy, evolution, and phylogenetic relationships of fruit crops and their wild relatives; molecular approaches to phylogeny reconstruction; ethnobotany
