Backyard Orchard News
Just Buggin' Ya
If there's ever a time to start "buggin' someone,' that would be at the Entomological Society of...
Flameskimmer dragonfly, Libellula saturata. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A new plant pathologist joined Kearney October 1, 2014.
Florent Trouillas, UC Assistant Cooperative Extension Specialist in the Department of Plant Pathology at UC Davis and Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center (KARE), specializing in fruit and nut crop pathology, became a welcomed addition to the KARE faculty on October 1, 2014. Trouillas' research program aims to understand current as well as emerging diseases of major fruit and nut crops, and deliver efficient and innovative control strategies. His research includes basic and applied studies on the etiology, biology, epidemiology and control of fruit and nut crop diseases.
Immediately prior to coming to KARE, Trouillas worked as a project scientist coordinating research projects in Viticulture for agricultural cooperatives in France.
Trouillas was a graduate student and a postdoctoral researcher in the laboratory of Extension Plant Pathologist Walter D (Doug) Gubler in the Department of Plant Pathology at UC Davis. Trouillas' research emphasized the characterization and control of canker diseases of grapes, fruit and nut crops.
Florent Trouillas in his plant pathology lab at Kearney.
A Gathering of the Insect Tribe: Fusing Art with Science
Ready to make some human-insect connections? Cultural entomologist Emmet Brady, host of...
UC Davis entomology undergraduate student Christine Melvin models the monarch wings on display at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Marvels of Migration
Lately we've been fascinated by the migrating Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) heading to...
A mighty male Monarch on the move. On its way to one of coastal California's overwintering sites, it stops to sip from flight fuel (nectar) from a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Pistachio plant pathology
Recently, severe root rot and mortality was observed on young potted pistachio rootstock trees...
Dr. Elizabeth Fichtner infests nutritional substrate with Phytopythium.
Pistachio seedlings potted in infested soil from Phytopythium helicoides as part of the requirements for fulfilling Koch’s Postulates to demonstrate pathogenicity of the organism.
John Iniguez from USDA-APHIS conducts a Permit Containment Inspection with Dr. Fichtner at the new Plant Pathology lab at Lindcove REC.
Katie Wilson assists Dr. Elizabeth Fichtner with transplanting pistachio plants into infested potting soil.