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  • From left are researchers Mark Lundy, Kalyn Taylor and Taylor Becker, at the time all in the UC Davis Department of Plant Sciences, observing plots of wheatgrass. The photo was taken in 2019, during the second year of a three-year experiment to compare the benefits and disadvantages of perennial wheatgrass with tilled annual wheat and no-till annual wheat in California's Central Valley. Photo: UC Davis Department of Plant Sciences
    No-till annual wheat better for soil health in California’s climate

    Nov 22, 2023

    • Agriculture
    • Environment
    • Food
  • If all grain shipped through the Black Sea by Russia and Ukraine were halted, it would cut off 27% of global wheat exports and 17% of global corn exports.
    Global food security threatened by grain export disruptions

    Sep 18, 2023

    • Agriculture
  • Eduardo Blumwald, right, of the UC Davis Department of Plant Sciences, with postdoctoral researcher Akhilesh Yadav, and rice they and others on the Blumwald team modified to use nitrogen more efficiently. Photo by Trina Kleist, UC Davis
    Growing cereal crops with less fertilizer

    Aug 5, 2022

    • Agriculture
    • Environment
  • UC Davis is leading a five-year, $15 million research project to accelerate wheat breeding to meet new climate realities. Photo by Vlad Stawizki on Unsplash
    UC Davis to lead $15 million research into climate-change resistant wheat

    Feb 8, 2022

    • Agriculture
    • Food
  • A gene discovery could increase yield, lower consumer prices and make this staple food more accessible.
    UC Davis team identifies wheat gene that increases yield

    Feb 2, 2022

    • Agriculture
    • Food
  • New tools for wheat growers integrate 'big data' sources like site-specific soil and weather data, as well as satellite, drone and other sensor measurements. Photo by Melissa Askew/Unsplash
    New ‘big data’ tools help California wheat farmers reduce fertilizer guesswork

    Oct 28, 2021

    • Agriculture
    • Environment
    • Innovation
  • 'Amber waves of grain' ready to harvest. (Photo: Kathy Keatley Garvey)
    Wheat: What’s behind the 'Amber Waves of Grain'

    Nov 19, 2014

  • UC researchers are decoding the genetic clues that help public and private breeders worldwide develop wheat varieties that resist disease.
    GMO fight in southern Oregon sharpens GMO debate in California

    Jun 4, 2014

  • Jorge Dubcovsky speaks at the small grains field day.
    UC researchers improve wheat nutrition and yield

    May 27, 2014

  • Left to right: David Neale, Jorge Dubcovsky, Linda Katehi, Roger Beachy, Neal Van Alfen.
    New funding to study wheat and forest genetics

    Jan 13, 2011

  • Wheat foliage damaged by stripe rust.
    Rainy season was good for valley wheat growers

    Jun 18, 2010

  • Jorge Dubcovsky, Assaf Distelfeld and Cristobal Uauy discovered a key mutation in a gene in domestic
    Pasta salad - more nutritious than ever

    May 5, 2010

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