The California Native Plant Foods Celebration and Symposium is organized by a team lead by Dan Potter, chair of the UC Davis Department of Plant Sciences. Panelists and demonstrations.
Alessandro Ossola, of the UC Davis Department of Plant Sciences, is working with a diverse team to develop a new kind of medicine that fosters health rather than chases disease.
A UC Davis survey found that gardening during the COVID-19 pandemic helped people relieve stress, connect with others, and grow food. It highlighted the positive mental health benefits and the need for more green spaces to support public health.
Two professors in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of California, Davis have been elected in this year’s class of fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, or AAAS, the world’s largest general scientific society. Part of their cohort were nine other UC Davis professors, bringing the campus-wide total of elected AAAS fellows to 11.
In a paper Joseph Edwards, '17 Ph.D. in Plant Biology, Professor Venkatesan Sundaresan, departments of Plant Biology and Plant Sciences, and their colleagues tracked root microbiome shifts throughout the life cycle of rice plants (Oryza sativa).
