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UC Davis Distinguished Professor Jay Rosenheim of the Department of Entomology and Nematology is a newly elected Fellow of the 7000-member Entomological Society of America (ESA).

Outdoors. Social Distance. Face Masks. Elderberries! Cindy Lashbrook, co-owner of Riverdance Farms on the Merced River, grows organic walnuts, cherries, blueberries and more.

I recently visited a couple of fields that were showing signs of sulfide toxicity. At first sight, the symptoms could be confused with blast. Plants dry out and turn brown, panicles blank out. However, plants affected by sulfide won't have any leaf or neck blast lesions.

You can feel it in the air fall is coming! The nights are starting to cool down, thankfully, and the air has a different sound. My grandma would always tell me to listen to the sound of the small airplanes that land and take off out of the Cable airport.

Here's one for all of you that I just can't figure out. Symptoms (see Photo 1 below) are on fruiting primocane blackberry, under tunnels. Maybe 5% of leaves affected, mostly limited to the bottom third of the hedgerow but issue does occur in bunches.

Because it is easier to correct a problem before you plant the trees than it is to diagnose and treat dying ones, which will probably be ripped out. A sad start to a tree is not a good ending.

This is one of a series of stories featuring a sampling of UC ANR academics whose work exemplifies the public value UC ANR brings to California. The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted life for everyone, with information about COVID-19 changing daily.

What do more than a dozen community and school garden organizers, members and directors of 15 non-profit boards, several K-12 teachers, a department chair from Loma Linda University a, retired USDA senior marketing manager, a sociologist, an anthropologist, a handful of IT and human resource manager...

ANR employees, along with other UC locations and thousands of other people across the US and beyond, are committing to deepening understanding of, and willingness to confront, racism for 21 consecutive days. Diversity scholar Eddie Moore, Jr.

Few things signal the end of summer and the beginning of fall as clearly as grapes beginning to ripen. Many different varieties of grapes are available throughout the season in shades of green, red, purple, and some dark enough to be considered black.