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UC Rice Blog: Article

Rice Yield Components

July 30, 2014
By Luis Espino
In the past few weeks I received several calls asking a version of the following question: how are stand, tillering and panicle size related to yield? A way to understand how these things interact is by discussing rice yield components and the factors that affect them.
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Topics in Subtropics: Article

What's in that Fertilizer?

July 30, 2014
By Ben A Faber
Most growers know the N-P-K numbers on fertilizer, but that doesn't tell you what else might be in the material, either as a contaminant or something purposely added to the material.
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This photo of former UC Davis visiting bee scientist Jakub Gabka of Poland won the gold award for best feature photo, presented recently by international Association for Communication Excellence. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

A Bee Beard Like No Other

July 29, 2014
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Bee scientists, beekeepers and bee photographers so love their bees that they can't get enough of them.
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Is the GMO 'debate' worth having?

July 29, 2014
I had been planning to write a blog about crop biotechnology/GMOs for quite some time. It was going to be witty, yet sensible; logical, but not academic. I was envisioning myself as a voice of reason. As someone who had spent the last 14 years thinking critically about crops and crop production.
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JOB OPENING :: Dryland Cropping Systems Specialist

July 29, 2014
By Gale Perez
The Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska is accepting applications for a Dryland Cropping Systems Specialist, a 50% research, 50% extension, a twelve-month, tenure-leading faculty position at the Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor rank in the Department o...
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Male longhorned bees jockeying for position on a guara stem. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

About Those Sleepovers...

July 28, 2014
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
We're receiving lots of inquiries about sleepovers ever since we began posting images of male longhorned bees, Melissodes agilis, sleeping on our lavender. Boys' Night Out! While the females sleep in their underground nests, the males cluster on stems.
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Topics in Subtropics: Article

Gary Bender Retiring

July 28, 2014
By Ben A Faber
After a 30-year career as the farm advisor of subtropical fruit crops in San Diego County, I've decided to retire to do some other things, including some fishing. According to my wife, that seems to mean some painting, re-tiling the floor, re-landscaping and cabinet work.
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Can herbicide resistance move from crops to weeds?

July 28, 2014
By Brad Hanson
The risks of GMO herbicide-resistant crops as a source for resistance traits in weeds has garnered recent attention in discussions of so-called superweeds. [I've commented previously on my general disagreement with the term "superweed" when talking about herbicide resistance].
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