Weed Day 2012 comes to UC Davis July 19

The latest developments in weed control will once again take center stage at UC Davis when scores of scientists, students, regulators and more gather July 19, 2012 for the 56th annual Weed Day at the Buehler Visitors & Alumni Center.

The morning field tours include: preharvest burndown treatment comparison in walnuts; Dittrichia, tarweed and yellow starthistle root growth dynamics; weed control and herbicide safety in melons; effect on herbicides on tomatoes under weed free conditions; Zeus–a new herbicide for use in tomato; herbicide drift symptomology on row crops; and field bindweed control in processing...

The Annual Bluegrass Pest Notes has been revised.

If you're not familiar with Pest Notes, they are the University of California’s official guidelines for pest monitoring techniques, pesticides, and non-pesticide alternatives for managing pests in homes and landscapes. Pest Notes are authored by UC folks and produced by the UC Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program. Best of all, they are FREE!

Here's the link to the weed-related Pest Notes: http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7464.html.

Annabelle Kleist, a Ph.D. student working with Associate Professor Marie Jasieniuk, has been awarded a California Science & Technology Policy Fellowship by the California Council on Science and Technology (CCST). The fellowship places Kleist in the California State Legislature where she will contribute to the state policymaking process. Following a comprehensive orientation on the state government and policy process, Kleist will work in a legislative office and answer technical questions, give scientific advice, and provide policy options for scientific issues. The CCST Fellowship will provide important experience in science...

Marcelo Moretti, a UC Davis Horticulture and Agronomy Ph.D. student working with Weed Specialist Brad Hanson, was named as the 2012 University Graduate Medalist at Fresno State for his effort during his M.S. program at Fresno State’s Jordan College of Agricultural Sciences and Technology.
 
Moretti’s master’s thesis project determined the first-ever globally known case of dual herbicide resistance (glyphosate and paraquat) in hairy fleabane...