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The following article is from the UC ANR Integrated Pest Management website, authored by Cheryl Wilen. http://ipm.ucanr.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn74128.html Puncturevine (Tribulus terrestris) is an aptly named summer annual found widely in California.

Brazilian researchers have identified activity against Xanthomonas citri in 29 fungi isolated from samples collected in Antarctica; one of the compounds inhibited reproduction of the bacterium by up to 98 percent Fundao de Amparo Pesquisa do Estado de So Paulo A research team at the So Paulo State...

A recent request from the San Diego area has prompted the reposting of this blog by Guy Kyser, UC Davis Plant Sciences Specialist http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.

It's been quiet for awhile, just odd winter weather and fire and ash and hot hot heat andsuddenly we see a beautiful insect we haven't seen in a while. Jarrell Larmon is a PCA who was nosing around in a Satsuma orchard and he turned up a Barnacle Scale, the likes we havent seen in about 4 years.

Western Plant Protection Network at UC Davis https://www.npdn.org/system/files/WPDN%20Newsletter%20-%202018-07-12.pdf Early detection technologies (EDTs) are tests that indicate the presence of disease before signs or symptoms of the disease can be seen.