Construction officially began on the Lynda and Stewart Resnick Center for Agricultural Innovation with a groundbreaking event on May 29, celebrating the future $64.4 million facility at the University of California, Davis.
UC Davis is ending its strawberry licensing agreements with Eurosemillas due to contract issues. The university aims to ensure stable access to its strawberry varieties while continuing to support growers, research, and the global strawberry market.
Richard Michelmore, UC Davis molecular biologist and founder of the Genome Center, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences for his work on plant disease resistance and COVID-19 testing. His research advances crop resilience and genomics.
AI is transforming food systems from plant breeding to nutrition. At UC Davis, researchers use AI to improve crop resilience, optimize processing, and enhance dietary insights, making agriculture more efficient, sustainable, and data-driven.
Invasive plants can stay dormant for decades before rapidly spreading, a UC Davis-led study finds. Researchers analyzed 5,700 species, with some lying dormant for up to 320 years. This lag phase makes early detection and prevention critical.
Sequencing the whitebark pine genome offers a powerful tool to restore this threatened, high-elevation species, improving disease resistance screening and climate adaptation in weeks instead of years—all at lower cost.
Blake Meyers, a leading plant genomics expert, will return to UC Davis as director of the Genome Center on March 1, 2024, succeeding Richard Michelmore and ushering in a new era focused on spatial genomics research.
Venkatesan Sundaresan, a UC Davis expert in rice reproduction and microbiomes, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences for groundbreaking research on clonal seeds and drought-tolerant crops.
