Disease
Southern Blight in Processing Tomatoes: Diagnosis, Management and Monitoring
Southern blight, caused by the fungus Sclerotium rolfsii, is a destructive crown rot disease that rapidly kills tomato…
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Disease
Biocontrol of Aflatoxin Contamination in Nut Crops is Working!
It was in 1991, when I received a call by the President of the former California Pistachio Commission,…
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Disease
Grape Trunk Diseases and Management
“Trunk disease” is a catch-all term that includes several different fungal diseases of grapevines trunks worldwide. The term…
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Irrigation
Assessing the Impact of Irrigation Water Quality on Strawberry Cultivars
Strawberries are the third most valued crop in California ($2.3 billion) and one of the most sensitive to…
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Disease
Non-Botrytis Fruit Rots of Strawberry: Under-estimated and Under-Researched?
Growers face a multitude of obstacles when trying to produce large volumes of high-quality strawberry fruit for a…
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Uncategorized
California’s Prune Orchard of the Future
California will likely have a large prune crop in 2019 following favorable bloom conditions and lower yields in…
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Pests
Colletotrichum Dieback in California Citrus
The 2017-2018 United States (U.S.) citrus crop was valued at 3.28 billion dollars with California’s citrus production accounting…
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Nutrition
Evaluating Biostimulant and Nutrient Inputs to Improve Tomato Yields and Crop Health
California is the leading producer of tomatoes, especially for the processing market (California Department of Food and Agriculture…
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Nutrition
Mechanistic Insight into the Salt Tolerance of Almonds
Good quality water is extremely important for agriculture throughout the world. However, due to reduced availability of water…
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Nutrition
Magnesium Deficiency in Grapes
When most California grape growers think of macronutrients, nitrogen (N) and potassium (K) are rightfully at the top…
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