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A woman in a blue lab coat is seen inside a greenhouse surrounded by plants.

Plant Biologist Siobhan Brady Named HHMI Investigator

by Liana Wait
July 23, 2024

A man in a blue lab coat and glasses works with a plant in a lab setting.

Plant Biologist Venkatesan Sundaresan Wins 2024 Wolf Prize in Agriculture

by Liana Wait
July 17, 2024

A tomato at the Student Farm

Researchers Examine How Early Harvest, Storage Affect Tomatoes

by Emily C. Dooley
June 28, 2024

Close up of a small white flower among green leaves against a neutral background.

Making Human Breast Milk Sugars in Plants

by Kara Manke
June 13, 2024

Resnick Center groundbreaking

Lynda and Stewart Resnick Center for Agricultural Innovation Groundbreaking

by Emily C. Dooley
May 31, 2024

drone image of Salton Sea waters going up to dry lakebed with mountains in distance

A Drying Salton Sea Pollutes Neighboring Communities

by Emily C. Dooley
May 29, 2024

Artificial intelligence in agricultural fields

Big Data Comes to Dinner

by Andy Fell
April 29, 2024

What’s In Our Food?

by Andy Fell
April 09, 2024

A field of grains with orange-red seed heads.

Researchers Identify Microbes That Help Plants Thwart Parasite

by Liana Wait
March 26, 2024

A brown-skinned man wearing a white lab coat and glasses stands over a tray of green seedlings.

Plant Biologists Identify Promising New Fungicides

by Liana Wait
February 29, 2024

Head and shoulders of a man wearing a dark blue shirt standing in a cornfield.

Maize Researcher Wins Prestigious National Academy of Sciences Prize

by Liana Wait
January 23, 2024

A beetle eats a green leaf from the edge.

For This Beetle, ‘Date Night’ Comes Every Other Day

by Andy Fell
January 18, 2024

Three nigiri pieces of bluefin tuna toro made from cultivated protein. (BlueNalu)

Integrative Center for Alternative Meat and Protein to Launch at UC Davis Jan. 17

by Amy Quinton
January 11, 2024

At left a bald man with a short beard and glasses, to right a woman with shoulder length red hair. Both are wearing dark blue lab coats. They are surrounded by tomato plants.

How Tomato Plants Use Their Roots to Ration Water During Drought

by Liana Wait
January 02, 2024

Professor Dario Cantu

Genetic Diversity of Wild North American Grapes Mapped

by Emily C. Dooley
December 19, 2023

butter lettuce aquaculture

Can AI Be Too Good to Use?

by Andy Fell
December 12, 2023

Johnsongrass found using Google Street View

Google Weed View? Professor Trains Computer to Spot Invasive Weed

by Emily C. Dooley
December 07, 2023

A grid of colored white, reddish and brown spots against a brown background.

Using Yeast to Convert Almond Hulls to Animal Feed

by Andy Fell
November 30, 2023

A man with short brown hair and a short beard examines an ear of corn surrounded by corn stalks.

A Mixed Origin Made Maize Successful

by Andy Fell
November 30, 2023

A grey/brown insect in the middle of bright green leaves.

Citrus Greening Bacteria Affects Pest's Sense of Smell

by Andy Fell
November 14, 2023

Three men in dark suits looking at gadgets on a table.

AI Institute for Food Systems Showcases Projects in DC

by Andy Fell
October 31, 2023

At right, a quadcopter drone hovers over orchard trees. On the left across a dirt road a man in a red shirt operates the drone.

Researchers Create App to Help Drones Improve Farm Efficiency

by Jessica Heath
October 26, 2023

An Asian man with black hair wearing a white lab coat, gloves and safety glasses stands in front of a laboratory bench.

UC Davis, Mars Researchers Discover Scalable Production Technique for Low-Calorie Sugar Substitute

by Andy Fell
October 24, 2023

An open plastic bag of crushed grey rock called metabasalt. Researchers have found adding it to farmland can suck carbon out of the air.

Adding Crushed Rock to Farmland Pulls Carbon Out of the Air

by Amy Quinton
October 24, 2023

Pershang Hosseini examines a specimen in her lab

Parasitic Weeds Threaten Tomato Plants on California Farms

by Emily C. Dooley
September 26, 2023

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