Ongoing research

Seven years ago, I wrote a blog on wild onion, Allium triquetrum.[1] Since that time, I've learned that I actually have one type of wild onion in my yard and another plant that initially looks like wild onion or wild garlic, Nothoscordum gracile, but actually is not.

Sacramento Valley Almond News - July, 2019 Contents: Cover Crop Seed Selection Summer-Fall Almond Orchard Management Considerations 2019 IPM Breakfast Meetings...

Pepino Dulce Common Name: Pepino Dulce or Pepino Melon Solanum muricatum Planting Zone: Sunset 15 and 16, 23 and 24 Size: 2-3 feet tall, spreading to about 4 feet wide.

In a recent article in Fresh Plaza, the flood of imported jackfruit is reported. As recently as 2 years ago, I saw jackfruit advertized on Amazon for nearly $10 a pound. These babies regularly weigh in at 10-20 pounds. In their homeland, they regularly clock in at 80 pounds and more.

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Shahid Masood Siddique has never met a plant parasitic nematode he didn't like--to study, that is. Plant-parasitic nematodes are microscopic worms that extract water and nutrients from such host plants as wheat, soybeans, sugar beets and bananas.

Cover Crop Seed Selection Summer-Fall Almond Orchard Management Considerations 2019 IPM Breakfast Meetings...

If a dragonfly lands on your window screen and rests there for several hours, is that good luck? A female red rock skimmer, Paltothemis lineatipes, did just that. She was several feet from our fish pond and several yards from our pollinator garden. And inches from where we stood.

UC Cooperative Extension will host a field day at the USDA-ARS Spence research farm to show a field trial evaluating water use in drip irrigated cauliflower. This is an opportunity to see first-hand the effect of water management on cauliflower production under drip.

The Madsen lab is working on South American spongeplant (Limnobium laevigatum), a relatively new invader in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (Photo 1).