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White popup canopy with the words: "CALIFORNIA CELEBRATES NATIONAL AG DAY" in front of State Capitol building.
California 4-H Grown: Article

4-H Brings Smiles to Ag Day at the Capitol

April 4, 2023
By Eve S Dowdell
Despite the cold and rainy weather, California 4-H stood strong at Ag Day at the Capitol 2023. Tons of people stopped by the 4-H booth, taking time to pet the animals and chat with our 4-H'ers from Sheldon 4-H.
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Britanny Kohler, then a member of the UC Davis Entomology Club, works the roach race track in this 2022 image. She is a UC Davis alumna and a research associate at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

What's a Picnic Without Bugs?

April 4, 2023
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
What's a picnic without bugs? UC Davis entomologists--students, faculty, staff and emeriti--will set up educational and entertaining displays at the 109th annual UC Davis Picnic Day, set Saturday, April 15.
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Lexie Martin of the Rachel Vannette lab
Entomology & Nematology News: Article

Record: Four Students in Department Win Highly Competitive NSF-GRSP Fellowships

April 4, 2023
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Three doctoral students and one undergraduate student in the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology are winners of highly competitive fellowships from the National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF-GRFP) grants, a record high achievement for the department.
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Figure 1. Dose–responses curves of branched broomrape and Egyptian broomrape seed germination in response to doses of three different ammonium products under three exposure durations of 10 minutes, one hour, and 24 hours. A three-parameter logistic model (Eq.1) was fitted to germination data. Lines are fitted values, and solid circles indicate observed germination averaged across two experimental runs with three replicates each (i.e., n =6). Error bars indicate 95% confidence intervals. Model parameter esti
UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia): Article

Farm machinery sanitation: a way to reduce broomrape seed spread among fields

April 3, 2023
By Brad Hanson
California is the largest producer of processing tomato in the US (Winans et al. 2020). However, the profitability of the tomato industry in California is seriously threatened due to the presence of the parasitic weed branched and Egyptian broomrape (https://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.
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Davis Field Day 2022
UC Small Grains Blog: Article

Save the Dates! Upcoming UC Field Days in April (4/18) and May (5/11)

March 30, 2023
By Mark E Lundy
Please join us for upcoming field events hosted by University of California Cooperative Extension: Nutrient Management Alternatives in Small Grains: Research Updates 4/18/2023 from 8:40 to 10:30 On-farm in Solano County Click here for details and to register UC Small Grains and Alfalfa/Forages Field...
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