UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia)

WRIC banner

Primary Image
Vegetable weeder is demonstrated at Weed Day at UC Davis. (photo credit: Bob Johnson)

Fennimore receives 2020 EurAgEng Outstanding Paper Award

August 17, 2020
By Kristin Burns
Steve Fennimore, UC Davis Plant Sciences faculty member and UC Cooperative Extension weed specialist, and colleagues received the 2020 EurAgEng Outstanding Paper Award for the paper, Crop Signalling: A Novel Crop Recognition Technique for Robotic Control, which was published in Biosystems Engineerin...
View Article
Primary Image
Figure 1: Branched broomrape infestation in a processing tomato field in California.
UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia): Article

Getting familiar with branched broomrape: a parasitic weed in California processing tomato

August 12, 2020
By Brad Hanson
Branched broomrape (Phelipanche ramosa), a weedy parasitic plant that can cause devastating damage to many economically important wide range of broadleaf crops including tomato, cabbage, potato, eggplant, carrot, pepper, beans, celery, peanut and sunflower has recently re-emerged in fields in Centra...
View Article
Primary Image
Perennial pepperweed on ditchbank near Tulelake, California

Noxious Weed Alert--Perennial Pepperweed/Tall Whitetop

August 5, 2020
By Thomas J Getts, Robert G Wilson
Perennial pepperweed (Lepidium latifolium) also known as tall whitetop is a root-creeping perennial weed. It is commonly found along roadsides, ditches, and drains. It is also a big problem in pastures, non-cropland, and even cropland that is not tilled on a yearly basis.
View Article