Test PB Collection: FTE

Fruit drop happens soon after, or slowly, depressingly over several weeks after a heat wave. The stem turns brown, cutting off moisture to the fruit, and they drop.

The California Dogface Butterfly, the state insect, is making quite a splash, and Placer Land Trust and UC Davis-affiliated scientists are an integral part of that. It seems as if the image of the dogface butterfly is everywhere.

Nominations are now open for the 2021 UC Women's Initiative for Professional Development (UC WI). Please submit nominations by Oct. 14, 2020. As in the past, ANR will be sponsoring women academics and staff to participate in the 2021 program.

Gardening with Vegetables is Trending! This year has been filled with surprises and new challenges. One surprise change that occurred was a bright spot.

Participants commit to improving the safety of their landscape after receiving Cooperative Extension information about safely planting drought-tolerant plants, contributing to improved community health.

What do 4-Hers do during a pandemic? California 4-H youth members decided to learn about disease outbreaks and transmission, public health investigations, personal practices to stay healthy, and much more.

As summer begins to wind down, hot peppers are ripening in the garden. Some gardeners will want them to be hotter, and others prefer less heat. Are there things you can do to shift their rating on the Scoville Heat Units (SHU) scale? Maybe, but there are a lot of myths as well.

So Sphaeropsis tumefaciens causes galls, but it's also been noted to cause witches broom in citrus, as well. Thjs type of broom formation is a wild, though compact growth. It's a dense mass of shoot growth from a single point a messy mass that even a witch would have a problem using to sweep up.

UC Delivers communicates your project's measured outcome for your clientele around learning and action and how these contribute to broader UC ANR condition changes and public value. It now displays in a blog format, which makes it easier to share.

On Aug. 8, 2020, President Trump signed an executive order for U.S. employers to have the option to defer the collection of employee payroll taxes through Dec. 31, 2020. Two weeks ago, the Internal Revenue Service issued guidance on this optional program.