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New IPM Strategy Dealing with Nematodes in Potatoes Shows Promise
Potato growers should think plant immunity, not toxic chemicals, when root-knot nematodes attack...
UC Davis nematologist Shahid Siddique (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Shedding New Light on Honey Bee Chromosomes
Honey bee geneticists with long ties to UC Davis are putting together those missing pieces of the...
"The honey bee genome,” Robert Page Jr. explained, “is composed of about 15,000 genes, each of which operates within a complex network of genes, doing its small, or large, share of work in building the bee, keeping its internal functions operating, or helping it function and behave in its environment. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Honey bee geneticist Robert Page Jr. (left) with colleagues: bee breeder-geneticist Kim Fondrk of UC Davis, and Martin Beye, former postdoctoral fellow in the Page lab and now a professor at the University of Düsseldorf, Germany.
Newly Published Research Provides New Insight Into How Diabetes Leads to Retinopathy
Embargo lifts at 10 a.m., Pacific Time An international team of scientists led by Professor Ingrid...
Diabetic retinopathy is the most common diabetic eye disease and a leading cause of adult blindness. Chronically high blood sugar from diabetes damages the tiny blood vessels in the retina, leading to diabetic retinopathy, according to the National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)