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The Real Dirt: Article

There’s Green in the Burn

February 8, 2019
By Laura Lukes, UC Master Gardener of Butte County, February 8, 2019 It didn't take long. Soon after the first post-Camp Fire rains, there was green in the burned area. Along lower Skyway, a blanket of soft verdure overlay the harsh scars of incineration.
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Postdoctoral fellow Antoine Brieux of the Joanna Chiu lab, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, will present a seminar at 4:10 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 13 in Briggs Hall on "Understanding the Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Photoperiodic Time Measurement in Drosophila melanogaster."
Bug Squad: Article

Antoine Brieux to Share PPTM Research on Fruit Fly

February 7, 2019
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Postdoctoral scientist Antoine Brieux of the Joanna Chiu lab, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, is gearing up for a seminar next week on his research on the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, involving photoperiodic time measurement (PPTM).
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California's four seasons are fire, flood, mud and drought.
ANR News Blog: Article

California's four seasons are fire, flood, mud and drought

February 7, 2019
By Jeannette Warnert
Farmers and ranchers are typically the first to feel droughts, a condition that seems to be impacting California on an increasing basis, reported Dustin Klemann on KSBY News on California's Central Coast.
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Celeste Harrison with her prize-winning chocoflan dessert. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Food Blog: Article

4-H member is a winner from curly haired cavies to chocoflan

February 7, 2019
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
From cavies to chili to chocoflan... Thirteen-year-old Celeste Harrison, a fourth-year member of the Sherwood Forest 4-H Club, Vallejo, shares her expertise about chili and cavies (guinea pigs), but she's also a pro in the kitchen and at making a dessert called Chocoflan. It's part cake, part flan.
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Notes in the Margins: Agronomy and Weed Science Musings: Article

Sixty Second Science Snippet: February 2019

February 7, 2019
February is Pesticide Safety Education Month The second annual National Pesticide Safety Education Month gets underway February 1st, to 1) reinforce core principles of safe handling and use and 2) to raise awareness/support land-grant university Pesticide Safety Education Programs (PSEPs).
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Ventura County 4-H: Article

Dining Through the Decades at the 4-H Food Faire!

February 7, 2019
The 2019 Ventura County 4-H Food Faire was held on Saturday, February 2nd at Will Rogers Elementary School in Ventura. Nineteen members participated from three clubs: Conejo-Simi, Loma Vista, and Somis. There were three food categories to enter: main dish, appetizer, and dessert.
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