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Hass or Haas Avocado?

August 8, 2017
By Ben A Faber
There was just a group of Florida researchers here in California sharing their experiences with ambrosia beetles and a fungal disease in avocado and other members of the laurel family. This is a pest/disease complex similar to that found here caused by a shot hole borer and fusarium.
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Sorghum panicle at bloom.
SJC and Delta Field Crops: Article

Sorghum Seeding Rate Trial - Update

August 8, 2017
By Michelle M Leinfelder-Miles
We are continuing a trial that we began last year to evaluate optimum seeding rates for grain sorghum.
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Let Us Prey!

August 7, 2017
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Everybody eats in the pollinator garden. Everybody. The pollinators in our garden in Vacaville, Calif., sip the nectar. They include honey bees, bumble bees, carpenter bees, sweat bees, European wool carder bees, hover flies and assorted butterflies. The predators eat, too.
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UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia): Article

How aquatic weeds affect costs to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation

August 7, 2017
By Guy Kyser
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) is one of the agencies responsible for operating a facility that pumps water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta into the California Aqueduct. The California Aqueduct pumps water for uses south of the facilities.
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UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia): Article

Cheatgrass: How many impacts can one species have?

August 7, 2017
By Thomas J Getts
There was a post written a few months ago by Rebecca Ozeran entitled A Tale of Two Grasses, describing her experiences with cheatgrass and contrasting its characteristics with another invasive annual, medusahead. It was an excellently written blog, and I encourage you to check it out! http://ucanr.
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The Beetle Boys Meet at the Bohart

August 4, 2017
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
The Beatle Boys made their mark in Liverpool, but across the pond, specifically at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, Davis, the real Beetle Boys emergedentomology-driven youth who have made their mark with the Coleopterists Society, an international society devoted to the st...
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UC Rice Blog: Article

Elongated Upper Internode

August 4, 2017
By Luis Espino
Every year we see some off-types in our public varieties that have a genetic mutation we call elongated upper internode. This mutation causes the internode below the panicle to elongate, resulting in panicles that stick above the canopy. Some have confused this abnormality with weedy rice.
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2017 UC Small Grain Variety Testing Program
UC Small Grains Blog: Article

Preliminary yield results from fall-planted 2016-17 variety trials

August 4, 2017
By Michelle M Leinfelder-Miles, Brian H Marsh, Steven D Wright, Mark E Lundy
Preliminary grain yield results for our fall-planted common wheat, triticale, durum wheat and barley trials are now available on the UC Small Grains Research and Information Center website: http://smallgrains.ucanr.
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