Pest Management & Plant Health

Botrytis cinerea infection appears as wilted flowers and a layer of spores on ripe fruit. Photo by Surendra Dara Botrytis fruit rot or gray mold caused by Botrytis cinerea is an important disease of strawberry and other crops damaging flowers and fruits.

EVENT: UC Rice Pest Management Course 2021 DAY/DATE: Friday, Sept. 10, 2021 LOCATION: Hamilton Road Field (on West Hamilton Rd. between Hwy. 99 and Riceton Hwy.

From the California Agriculture 75(2):64-73. https://doi.org/10.3733/ca.2021a0012 ********** Abstract Branched broomrape (Phelipanche ramosa), a parasitic weed that was the focus of a $1.

All systems are "go" for a first-of-its-kind international olfaction/taste symposium co-hosted by a trio of scientists, including UC Davis distinguished professor Walter Leal. The Zoom symposium, Insect Olfaction and Taste in 24 Hours Around the Globe, begins at 9 a.m.

EVENT: UC Rice Pest Management Course 2021 DAY/DATE: Friday, Sept. 10, 2021 LOCATION: Hamilton Road Field (on West Hamilton Rd. between Hwy. 99 and Riceton Hwy.

August is here, and summer vegetable plants are still growing strong. It's hard to believe it's time to start thinking about planting your fall vegetable garden! We are offering two free, in-person classes.

Two identical looking species of wood-boring beetles, collectively known as invasive shothole borers (ISHB), have killed thousands of trees in Southern California and pose an ongoing threat to California's urban and wildland forests.

The UC Statewide IPM Program is hosting a free webinar.

If you're a honey bee geneticist and you're asked to highlight your three-decade scientific career, how do you start? Societies to genes? And how do you get from there to here? Noted honey bee geneticist Robert E. Page Jr.

Noted honey bee geneticist Robert E. Page Jr., a UC Davis and Arizona State University emeritus professor and administrator, has authored a newly published, invited article in the journal Genetics on Societies to Genes: Can We Get There from Here? that highlights his three-decade scientific career.