Category: Nutrition

Faculty Position Opening: Assistant/Associate Professor of Crop Improvement for Human and Animal Nutrition

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POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT Assistant/Associate Professor of Crop Improvement for Human and Animal Nutrition Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis The Department of Plant Sciences in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at the University of California, Davis, is recruiting an Assistant/Associate Professor of Crop Improvement with an emphasis on improving the nutritional quality…

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Food and Agriculture: A Global Conversation

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The Food and Agriculture: A Global Conversation symposium will take place on April 24, 2018, at UC Davis. The conference will bring together leaders in academia, industry, and the media to provide participants with scientific information about agriculture, nutrition, and food security. It will spark collaborations between attendees that will enhance the public discourse of scientific issues. The symposium…

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Understanding How Rice Root Microbiome Can Promote Agricultural Growth

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Your body plays host to a microbial ecosystem that’s ever-evolving, and its composition has implications for your overall health. The same holds true for plants and their microbiomes and the relationship is of pivotal importance to agriculture. In a paper appearing in PLOS Biology, Joseph Edwards, ’17 Ph.D. in Plant Biology, Professor Venkatesan Sundaresan, departments…

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Seeds of Innovation

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Important work happening in the Capital Region is transforming the future of vegetables. Inside the Seed Biotechnology Center at UC Davis, Dr. Allen Van Deynze points out the progress of the genome sequencing of Moringa oleifera — a colorful stream of data points shows on his computer screen. The moringa tree is an important source…

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UC Davis and Dow AgroSciences Team with Consortium to Advance African Orphan Crops

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Bambara groundnut. Drumstick tree. Apple-ring tree. While many have never heard of these crops, they produce nutrition essential in Africa. To help improve the benefit brought by these and other little-studied crops, Dow AgroSciences teamed up with the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) and the African Orphan Crops Consortium (AOCC). The organization is working…

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