Ongoing research

Unlike other plants, avocado (Persea americana Mill.), is not a host for very many viral diseases.

For the past four years I've grown almost every kind of vegetable I thought I'd like to eat, multiple varieties of each. Somehow this rampant experimentation has not extended to flowers.

Many parts of California sizzle in the summer heat, but living on the coast means spending most days under a thick marine layer blanket and being buffeted by chilly breezes.

It's so quiet at times that you can almost hear a bee buzz or a walking stick walk or a Madagascar hissing cockroach hiss. The audience, ranging from toddlers to teens to senior citizens, are inside the the Vacaville Public Library.

Instructor del curso para administradores del clima inspira cambios en el condado de Butte Habiendo crecido en el condado de Butte, Rose Brazil-Few ha sido testigo de la devastacin que el cambio climtico ha dejado en las comunidades y los ecosistemas a travs una severa sequa o mortferos incendios fo...

Professor Jerry Alan Powell, an international authority on Lepidoptera and a longtime director of the Essig Museum of Entomology, UC Berkeley, died July 8 in Berkeley at age 90.

Un estudio revela que la cifra fue menor durante las citas virtuales Mientras que las tasas de desempleo se incrementaron durante la pandemia del COVID-19, millones ms de estadounidenses experimentaron inseguridad alimentaria porque carecieron de un acceso consistente a alimentos.

La Universidad de California en Davis dio a conocer cinco nuevas variedades de fresas que son resistentes a la enfermedad de marchitamiento por Fusarium y tienen un alto grado de produccin y una calidad de fruta mejorada.

The Urban & Community IPM Webinar Series has several exciting webinars coming up this summer and fall. These webinars occur on the third Thursday of every month from 12:00 to 1:00pm PDT.

I have always loved lavender's fragrance, its colorful prolific blooms, its delightful oils, and soaps. I recently had the pleasure of taking a Stanislaus County UC Cooperative Extension Master Gardener workshop on lavender.