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The University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE) Master Gardeners of Stanislaus County are teaching a free Managing Pests in Your Vegetable Garden class on Thursday, July 18, 2019 from 6:00-7:30 p.m. at the Agriculture Center on 3800 Cornucopia Way in Modesto at Harvest Hall, Rooms D&E.

Botrytis fruit rot or gray mold, caused by Botrytis cinerea, is common fruit disease in California strawberries (Koike et al. 2018). Botrytis cinerea has a wide host range infecting several commercially important crops including blueberry (Saito et al. 2016), grapes (Saito et al.

The posters displayed at the Bruce Hammock Alumni Lab Reunion last August in the UC Davis Conference Center epitomized state-of-the-art scientific research. Typical of the posters, all by Hammock lab affiliates: "Insect Gut--Pathogen Molecular Interactions" by Bryony C.

Summer is here, and we're halfway through 2019 already! Why not get jump on finishing up your continuing education units by taking online courses from the UC Statewide IPM Program (UC IPM).

In early June on the way home from a trip to Bodega Bay, my husband and I stopped in at the Luther Burbank Gold Ridge Experiment Farm. Luther Burbank, the famous American plantsman, had purchased the farm in 1885 and used it as a base for his long successful career.

WEED CONTROL EFFICACY AND CROP SAFETY OF PREFAR AND DACTHAL HERBICIDES APPLIED OVER BROCCOLI AND CELERY TRANSPLANTS PRELIMINARY ESTIMATION OF DEHYDRATOR ONION CROP WATER NEEDS IN THE IMPERIAL VALLEY LIVESTOCK RESEARCH BRIEF IMPERIAL VALLEY CIMIS REPORT AND UC WATER MANAGEMENT RESOURCES...

To provide California citrus growers with a strong toolbox of science-supported strategies and tactics to protect their orchards from Huanglongbing, the Citrus Pest & Disease Prevention Committee endorsed a set of best practices for growers to voluntarily employ in response to HLB in California.

Welcome to summer! Or at least I think it's summer since southern California is having a very strong June Gloom period that started before June and has touched July. You folks up north have had some pretty hot days though.

Advice for the Home Gardener from the Help Desk of the UC Master Gardener Program of Contra Costa County Help Desk Request: Hello, I would be grateful for some advice.

Cada vez es ms frecuente ver coyotes merodeando en las reas suburbanas de California y las quejas de los residentes estn aumentando.