Inside the Sciences Lab Building, tucked next to the Biological Academic Success Center, is a door with a placard reading, “UC Davis Center for Plant Diversity” (aka Herbarium). Step inside and you’ll find undergraduates working at tables, curating and prepping dried plants for display and storage. Around 350,000 dried specimens are stored in the center,…
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Contributing to fill a critical need for trained plant breeders, the University of California, Davis, Plant Breeding AcademySM (PBA) started its seventh class of students this week with a session in Davis, California. Over the next two years this class will spend more than 300 hours in classes, workshops and the field, training to complete this premium professional…
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This workshop, held on the UC Davis campus, September 18-20, 2018 (Tues.–Thurs), provides an intensive and substantive overview of fresh-cut product physiology, production, hygienic facility and equipment design, wash water management, film and packaging design principles and practical selection, sensory evaluation, and distribution. Participants will gain working knowledge of established and new procedures through topic-related…
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Horticulture is facing a crisis. As older plant growers, nursery managers and groundskeepers retire, there are too few people to replace them. “There’s an age gap in commercial horticulture, a drastic and obvious lack of people under the age of 40,” said Cole Mangum, vice president of production at Bell Nursery in Burtonsville, Md. “Our…
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UC Davis Chancellor Gary May met with Plant Sciences Chair Gail Taylor and a number of faculty and researchers yesterday (July 31) to learn about the breadth and impact of the department, and what makes it the top-ranked Plant Sciences program globally. Meeting in the Plant Reproductive Biology Building on campus, faculty shared their representative…
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Russell Ranch Field Day is an annual event at UC Davis each June, at which faculty, graduate students, and postdocs present their plant, soil, and irrigation field research to growers and other researchers. This year’s field day theme, on June 11, 2018, was “Increasing Farm Resilience Through Healthy Soils and Water Management.” Included in the…
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Seed Central is the recipient of the UC Davis Chancellor’s Innovative Community Partner of the Year Award, given in recognition of significant contributions to driving regional economic impact through innovation, entrepreneurship or support for growing the startup ecosystem in collaboration with university. Seed Central energizes the seed and ag-biotech industry around UC Davis and contributes…
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Julia Jordan, a UC Davis student who is studying for a master’s degree in international agricultural development, recently spent six months in Uganda helping smallholder farmers improve irrigation practices with an approach that went beyond technology development. “I was searching for an opportunity to work on a project in East Africa that focused on gender,…
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Quick Summary UC Davis World Food Center to support scientific research that improves food systems ‘Food For Thought’ public events to highlight UC Davis research shaping the future of food World Food Center leaders planning future joint academic, business community events The University of California, Davis, has renewed its World Food Center within the College…
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As part of the Plant Breeding Center’s monthly field trip series, participants will visit the UC Davis Genome and Biomedical Sciences Facility on Wednesday, April 18, from 4 to 5 p.m. The group will meet in the lobby of the Genome and Biomedical Sciences Facility building (451 Health Science Drive, Davis, Calif.; this is on…
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