🚜 From Journal of Agricultural Safety Health: As robotics reshape farm work, researchers call for urgent study of human–machine safety, event tracking, and collaboration to protect agricultural workers. (Farzaneh Khorsandi) ▶️ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40794928/ #AgEngineering #Agriculture

From Nature Sustainability: Water prices in California’s surface markets spike during drought but stay stable in groundwater markets, showing storage is key to climate resilience. (Colin A. Carter, Bulat Gafarov, Jens Hilscher, Katrina Jessoe) ▶️ www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Climate #Drought

🌱From Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment: Managed cattle grazing can suppress invasive grasses and boost native plant diversity, offering a sustainable tool for restoring tropical grasslands. (Bruna H. Campos, Jennifer L. Funk) ▶️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #RangelandScience

🌾From Apomixis: Researchers have engineered rice plants that clone themselves from seed, preserving hybrid vigor across generations, a major step toward true synthetic apomixis. (Imtiyaz Khanday, Venkatesan Sundaresan) ▶️ link.springer.com/protocol/10.... #PlantScience #Agriculture

🌱 From International Journal of Remote Sensing: Remote sensing models can capture daily evapotranspiration, but their accuracy falters across the diurnal cycle, revealing key model and data limitations. (Andrew J. McElrone) ▶️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #RemoteSensing #PlantScience

From Postharvest Biology and Technology: Chitosan coatings effectively suppress citrus molds, including fungicide-resistant strains, extending orange shelf life and offering a sustainable postharvest alternative. (Adrian O. Sbodio, Barbara Blanco-Ulate) ▶️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🌱 From HortScience: Combining steam with quicklime improved soil pathogen control, but effects on weeds were inconsistent—highlighting the need to refine heat-based disinfestation methods. (Steven Fennimore) ▶️ journals.ashs.org/view/journal... #WeedScience #PlantScience

🌱From Nature Communications: A newly cloned resistance gene, Lr.ace-4A/Lr30, provides near-immunity to leaf rust in durum wheat, offering a powerful tool for future wheat breeding. (Jorge Dubcovsky) ▶️ www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PlantScience

🌳From Urban Forestry & Urban Greening: California schools lost 1.8% of tree canopy between 2018–2022, with 85% of campuses seeing declines. Losses were greatest in heat-stressed regions.(Luisa Velasquez-Camacho,Moreen Willaredt, Pooja Singh, Alessandro Ossola) ▶️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🌱 From Food and Bioprocess Technology: Off-ground almond harvest cuts insect damage by 52% and reveals key drying needs tied to moisture and thermal properties at different harvest stages. (Zhaokun Ning, Ragab Khir, Zhongli Pan) ▶️ link.springer.com/article/10.1... #PlantScience #AgEngineering

🌱 From PLOS One: High-quality genomes of Cytospora sorbicola and C. plurivora reveal key virulence factors and support taxonomic revision, advancing canker disease research. (Tawanda E. Maguvu,Rosa J. Frias,Florent P. Trouilla) ▶️ journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... #PlantPathology #PlantScience

🌱 From Agricultural and Forest Meteorology: Compound and cascading climate extremes are intensifying in California’s farm valleys, shifting northward and amplifying risks to crops like almonds and grapes. (Andre Daccache) ▶️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #PlantScience

The new CURE course at UC Davis, led by PMN member Philipp Zerbe, is helping students to create an interactive chemical map of Arboretum plants. Read about it here: biology.ucdavis.edu/news/whats-l... Photos: Katrina Huynh - UC Davis @ucdavisplants.bsky.social

🌱 From Plants, People, Planet: Plant performance remained stable under reduced irrigation across climatic zones, showing strong trait plasticity and potential for lower urban water use. (Jared Sisneroz, Lorence Oki) ▶️ nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #PlantScience #Drought

🌱From Agricultural Water Management: Winter groundwater recharge in alfalfa fields can store large volumes of water with minimal yield loss, though timing is key to avoid quality declines. (Helen E. Dahlke, Daniel H. Putnam) ▶️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #PlantScience #Groundwater

🌳From Annals of Botany: Urban forests hold untapped potential as genetic reservoirs for threatened tree species, offering a powerful tool to advance global conservation goals. (Alessandro Ossola) ▶️ academic.oup.com/aob/advance-... #PlantScience #Conservation #Ecology

🌱International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer: A solar-powered cold storage system cut produce weight loss threefold and extended shelf life fourfold, offering an efficient, low-cost preservation method. (Md Shamim Ahamed) ▶️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #AgEngineering #Postharvest

🌱From Ecology: Invasive annuals show strong local adaptation to aridity, but not to nitrogen deposition, highlighting climate as a key driver of evolutionary response. (Justin M Valliere, Mayra J Hernández) ▶️ pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... #PlantScience #InvasiveSpecies

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UC Davis research improves the lives of Americans and ensures the world we live in is healthy, safe, prosperous and secure for all. FromLabsToLives | #SpeakUp4Science Learn more about UC Davis research: https://www.ucdavis.edu/research/labs-to-lives https://youtu.be/Bvl5okSBc9M?si=Mn2denEGrxkK4FDt

🌱From Science of The Total Environment: A calibrated SEB-PV model using gridded soil moisture can accurately estimate orchard evapotranspiration, expanding water management options.(Lorenzo E. Cigarra-Guíñez,Pasquale Steduto, Kristen Shapiro, Daniele Zaccaria) ▶️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our Genome Biology paper on wheat spike development integrating single cell and spatial transcriptomics is now published! Check out the paper here: doi.org/10.1186/s130... and enjoy the beautiful pictures (including our 44 supplementary figures)! Be sure to check out some of our tools below!

🛰️ From Building and Environment: A new LiDAR and thermal infrared method maps urban heat at a centimeter scale, revealing sharp temperature differences between sunlit and shaded areas. (Brian Bailey) ▶️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #PlantScience #lidar

🍓From HortScience: Two new day-neutral strawberry cultivars combine Fusarium wilt resistance with high yields and long shelf life.(Glenn S. Cole, Dominique D.A. Pincot, Cindy M. Lòpez, Randi A. Famula, Steven J. Knapp) ▶️ journals.ashs.org/view/journal... #PlantPathology #PlantSceince #PlantBreeding

🌱 From Nature Plants: Researchers have identified the long-sought enzyme completing iridoid biosynthesis, revealing how plants produce key alkaloids for defense and medicine. (Philipp Zerbe) ▶️ www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PlantBiology #PlantPathology

🌱 From Plant Disease: High-throughput sequencing reveals a diverse wheat virome in Texas, with WSMV and TriMV dominating and frequent mixed infections shaping disease risk. (Maher Al Rwahnih) ▶️ apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/... #PlantPathology #PlantScience

🌱 From Current Opinion in Plant Biology: Half a century of research reveals how actin and myosin coordinate with microtubules to guide plant cell division, ensuring precise cell plate placement. (Bo Liu, Yuh-Ru Julie Lee) ▶️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #PlantBiology #PlantScience

🌾From Field Crops Research: Drought reduced rice acreage while high crop prices drove a shift to water-intensive orchards, revealing how economics can outweigh water constraints. (Luke A. Salvato, Cameron Pittelkow, Bruce A. Linquist) ▶️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #PlantScience

🌱 From UC Davis: A new online database maps where crop byproducts are generated, helping innovators turn agricultural waste into valuable ingredients and new products. (Edward Spang) ▶️ caes.ucdavis.edu/news/turning... #FoodScience #PlantScience #Agriculture

🌱From Journal of the Royal Society Interface: A model links pistachio hull colors to kernel filling, helping growers predict blank nuts and pinpoint optimal harvest timing. (A. Omotayo, F. Hsieh, Y. Wei, P. Guzmán-Delgado, G. Marino, B. Blanco-Ulate) ▶️ royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

🌱 From HortScience: New research shows that while #almond cultivars show limited symptoms, many commonly used rootstocks are highly vulnerable to Sharka, posing a major risk. (Theodore Dejong, Thomas Gradziel) ▶️ journals.ashs.org/view/journal... #PlantScience #PlantPathology

🌱 Leaf spectral analysis combined with machine learning can detect broomrape infestations in tomato crops early, before visible symptoms appear.(Mohammadreza Narimani, Alireza Pourreza, Ali Moghimi, Parastoo Farajpoor, Hamid Jafarbiglu, Mohsen B. Mesgaran) ▶️ www.arxiv.org/abs/2509.12074 #WeedScience

🌱From Frontiers in Agronomy: Bioherbicides offer multiple modes of action, from photosystem inhibition to auxin mimicry, but their complex chemistry makes mechanisms harder to define. (Zhenglin Zhang, Kassim Al-Khatib) ▶️ www.frontiersin.org/journals/agr... #PlantScience #WeedScience

From UC Davis: AI-powered Leaf Monitor uses spectrometry to give farmers instant nutrient and stress data, enabling real-time crop management and more precise fertilizer use. (Alireza Pourreza, Parastoo Farajpoor) ▶️ www.ucdavis.edu/news/ai-tool... #PlantScience #ai #AgEngineering

🌱From Ecology and Evolution: Adding soil data to climate models improves predictions of where Australian native plants can thrive, but climate remains the dominant driver of distribution. (Alessandro Ossola, Pooja Singh) ▶️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #PlantScience #Climate

🖥️ From New Phytologist: Leaf inclination is key to modeling canopy function. A new study shows terrestrial LiDAR methods outperform photography, offering more complete and reliable estimates. (Brian N. Bailey) ▶️ nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience #LiDAR

💧From Agricultural Water Management: A fuzzy logic model shows shifting drought risk in Southwest China, with an irrigated farmland ratio above 7.18% helping buffer crops against extreme weather. (Isaya Kisekka) ▶️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #PlantScience #PlantBiology #drought

🌱 From Plant Science: Disrupting 2S seed proteins in Arabidopsis reveals redox homeostasis as a core driver of proteome rebalancing, though it comes at a cost to germination. (Amanda Agosto Ramos, Daniel J. Kliebenstein) ▶️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #PlantScience #PlantBiology

🌱 From Plant Biotechnology Journal: A single gene, CsEIN2, was found to control both cold tolerance and female flower production in cucumber, revealing a co-domestication mechanism for adaptation. (Diane M. Beckles) ▶️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience #Biotechnology

🌱From UC Davis: A new project is developing plant-based biomanufacturing systems for low-resource settings on Earth and in space, aiming for sustainable, low-cost production. (Karen McDonald, Abhaya Dandekar, Stephen Robinson, Somen Nandi, Denneal Jamison-McClung). ▶️ www.ucdavis.edu/news/cheaper...

💧Agricultural Water Management: In vineyards, extra drip irrigation during heatwaves eases water stress but does not cool land surface temperature or boost evaporative cooling.(A. Gal, N. Bambach,S. Bagshaw,S. Castro-Bustamante,M. Galeano,N. Raab,E. Forrestel) ▶️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🍓From HortScience: ‘UC Surfline’ is a new short-day strawberry delivering early yields, firm fruit, and resistance to Fusarium, Verticillium, and crown rot. (Steven J. Knapp, Glenn S. Cole, Dominique D. A. Pincot, Cindy M. Lòpez, Randi A. Famula) ▶️ journals.ashs.org/view/journal... #PlantBreeding

🌱 Structural variants control sex-specific flowering in walnuts and hickories, offering parallel but distinct evolutionary solutions. (Jeffrey S. Groh, Diane Vik, Matthew Davis, J. Grey Monroe, Kristian Stevens, Patrick J. Brown, Charles Langley, and Graham Coop) ▶️ www.science.org/doi/full/10....

🌱From Nature Microbiology: Viral genes that mimic host metabolism can be misinterpreted. Researchers urge caution, proposing a broader framework for auxiliary viral genes. (Joanne B. Emerson) ▶️ www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PlantPathology #PlantScience #Virology

🌱 From Annual Reviews: Over 70 disease-resistance genes have been cloned in Triticeae crops, many from wild relatives, revealing diverse strategies to protect global food security. (Yi-Chang Sung, Gitta Coaker) ▶️ www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... #PlantPathology #PlantScience

🌱From BioOne: Genomic and morphological analyses show Fremontodendron decumbens is a distinct species, while look-alike forms align genetically with F. californicum. (Reed J. Kenny, Will McMahan, Debora Ayres, Virginia Meyer, Eva Grotkopp, Shannon Still, Daniel Potter) ▶️ bioone.org/journals/mad...

🌱 From Journal of Agriculture and Food Research: Genetic analysis of kanisté fruit trees reveals two main groups and moderate diversity, with natural habitats holding more variation than cultivated sites. (Daniel Potter) ▶️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #PlantScience #NativeSpecies

🌱 From Applied Soil Ecology: In California pastures, soil microbes show little response to grazing exclusion, with communities shaped more by site conditions than management. (Danny J. Eastburn, Leslie M. Roche) ▶️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #PlantScience #Rangelands

From UC ANR: California invests $15.1M to build a statewide agtech network, accelerating innovation from lab to field to help farms adapt to water, heat and labor challenges. ▶️ ucanr.edu/blog/anr-new... #PlantScience #Agriculture #California

🧬From Nucleic Acids Research: Viruses from plants to humans share a protective RNA ring that blocks nucleases, revealing a universal strategy for RNA stability. (Anna Erickson, Chih-Hung Huang,Yen-Wen Kuo) ▶️ academic.oup.com/nar/article/... #PlantPathology #PlantScience