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2020 Field Walk with UC Cooperative Extension Vegetable Crops Advisor Zheng Wang
UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia): Article

2020 Field Walk - weed management in basil

August 19, 2020
With COVID-19, we've had to skip hosting in-person field day events and come up with creative ways to extend research results and information.
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Vegetable weeder is demonstrated at Weed Day at UC Davis. (photo credit: Bob Johnson)
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Fennimore receives 2020 EurAgEng Outstanding Paper Award

August 17, 2020
Steve Fennimore, UC Davis Plant Sciences faculty member and UC Cooperative Extension weed specialist, and colleagues received the 2020 EurAgEng Outstanding Paper Award for the paper, Crop Signalling: A Novel Crop Recognition Technique for Robotic Control, which was published in Biosystems Engineerin...
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Figure 1: Branched broomrape infestation in a processing tomato field in California.
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Getting familiar with branched broomrape: a parasitic weed in California processing tomato

August 12, 2020
By Brad Hanson
Branched broomrape (Phelipanche ramosa), a weedy parasitic plant that can cause devastating damage to many economically important wide range of broadleaf crops including tomato, cabbage, potato, eggplant, carrot, pepper, beans, celery, peanut and sunflower has recently re-emerged in fields in Centra...
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