Ongoing research

Invasive plants are defined by the Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) as, A plant that is both non-native and able to establish on many sites, grow quickly, and spread to the point of disrupting plant communities or ecosystems.

This summer, the Nutrition Policy Institute has welcomed eight student interns who are supporting ongoing research and communications. The group is bringing new perspectives to NPI work, strengthening connections with the academic and local communities, and bolstering research.

A recent article in Citrograph recounts studies in introducing tolerance/resistance to huanglongbing by inarching. This is a method that could potentially improve the productivity of trees that are already in the ground.

Professor Fran Keller of Folsom Lake College, a UC Davis doctoral alumnus and author of the children's book, The Story of the Dogface Butterfly, will read her 35-page book to children and parents at the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house on the California dogface butterfly.

Johnsongrass (Sorghum halepense) is a common sight throughout our hot dry Butte County summers. It is also considered to be one of the world's most noxious perennial weeds.

An established pollinator garden Birds and butterflies enjoy Natures way of keeping on course...

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Picture this. A female Melissodes agilis, the so-called "agile longhorned bee," is foraging on a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola. Longhorned? So named because they have unusually long antennae.

Healthy soils are key for ensuring optimum plant health for high quality, high yielding alfalfa stands, not to mention long-term crop production.