Category Archives: Agriculture

UC researchers develop strawberry plants with disease resistance

Posted on September 12, 2013 by afilmer
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UC Davis scientists help deliver genetic one-two blow to deadly wheat disease

Posted on August 23, 2013 by afilmer
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Gene sequencing targets witchweed and other destructive parasitic plants

Posted on August 15, 2013 by afilmer
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Community supported agriculture: How big is too big?

Posted on July 18, 2013 by afilmer
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Mushrooms and health summit

Posted on July 18, 2013 by afilmer
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Agriculture: Feeding the future

Posted on July 11, 2013 by afilmer
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Gene discovery may halt a worldwide wheat epidemic

Posted on July 1, 2013 by afilmer

June 28, 2013 A team of researchers from UC Davis and Kansas State University has identified a gene that enables resistance to a new race, or strain, of stem rust, a disease that is producing large wheat yield losses throughout … Continue reading →

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Nematode-resistant wheat can protect tomatoes

Posted on June 3, 2013 by afilmer

University of California, Davis May 20, 2013 (This blog entry is condensed from an article by Brad Hooker, UC Davis Dept. of Plant Sciences. It also appeared in the longer version on the College of Agricultural and Environmental Science’s blog … Continue reading →

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