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Loren Oki
Department of Plant Sciences
UC Davis
David Fujino
California Center for Urban Horticulture
UC Davis
UCNFA News
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Directors
Loren Oki
Department of Plant Sciences
UC Davis
David Fujino
California Center for Urban Horticulture
UC Davis
UCNFA News
UCNFA Partners
UC Nursery and Floriculture Alliance (UCNFA) News Site Map
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- Summer 2014: Jim Bethke receives the 2014 CANERS Research Award
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- Spring 2010
- Spring 2016: UNCFA Program Representative position changes hands
- Three retirements in nursery and floriculture programs
- Retirements Announced
- Disease Focus
- Powdery and Downy Mildews
- DISEASE FOCUS: The rise of Bot canker diseases
- Disease Focus: Detecting Phytophthora in nursery plants
- DISEASE FOCUS: Scorch diseases caused by Xylella fastidiosa
- DISEASE FOCUS: Fusarium dieback and polyphagous shot hole borer
- DISEASE FOCUS: Effect of fertilizers on plant diseases
- DISEASE FOCUS: Mixed infections cause problems with accurate disease diagnosis
- DISEASE FOCUS: Do you know what might be lurking in your irrigation water?
- DISEASE FOCUS: Developing a successful disease scouting program
- DISEASE FOCUS: Boxwood blight — a new threat to California
- DISEASE FOCUS: Weeds as a source of plant virus infections and bacterial leaf spot of poinsettia
- DISEASE FOCUS: Insect-transmitted plant virus diseases
- DISEASE FOCUS: Botrytis time
- Feature Stories
- Sanitation to Reduce Arthropod Pests
- Keeping Weeds out of Your Operation
- Sanitation for Pathogens: Contaminated Soil is a Primary Source of Pathogens and Must Be Managed
- Solarization: A Simple and Low-cost Method for Disinfesting Horticultural Containers
- Slow Sand Filters Remove Tobacco Mosaic Virus
- The Nuts and Bolts of Scouting
- Scouting for diseases and environmental monitoring
- Scouting improves weed management
- Scouting for snails and slugs
- UC demonstrates benefits of a scouting program for insects and mites
- Managing El Niño Storm Runoff
- Impacts of El Niño in 2016
- Irrigating greenhouse and nursery crops based on soil moisture measurement
- Reap Profits During Drought
- Strategies for Diagnosing Abiotic and Biotic Problems
- History and Status of the Glassy-Winged Sharpshooter in California
- Glassy-winged Sharpshooter Nursery Subcommittee Update
- Maintaining Irrigation Efficiency in Greenhouses and Nurseries
- Leaching to Manage Salinity in Ornamental Crops
- UC Resources Available to Assist California through the Drought
- The Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer: A New Tree Pest in Southern California
- The Threat of Brown Marmorated Stink Bug to Nurseries and Floriculture
- Management of the Bagrada Bug in Nurseries
- What’s Bugging Our Bees?
- Nutrient Release from Controlled-Release Fertilizers in Nursery Production Systems
- Organic Nitrogen Fertilizers for Container Substrates
- Plant Selection for Vegetated Buffers: Plant Size vs Nutrient Uptake Efficiency
- Update of Slow Sand Filtration Research
- Pesticide Use on the Decline in California Cut Flower Production: The Untold Story
- Progress in Managing Weeds, Mollusks and Vertebrates
- Benefits of Effective Personnel Management
- Practical Steps to Employee Selection: Designing the Employee Selection Process
- Management of Downy and Powdery Mildews: Three New Diseases Hit California
- Steaming And Other Management Practices For Pre-Plant Weed Control In Nurseries
- Evaluation of Herbicides for Weed Control Efficacy and Crop Safety in Field Production of Nursery Fruit and Nut Trees
- Machine-Guided Cultivation to Control Weeds in Field-Grown Cut Flowers
- Organic Herbicides - Do They Work?
- European Pepper Moth: A New Invasive Moth Threatens California Agriculture
- Field Evaluation Of Insecticides To Control Light Brown Apple Moth
- Ecological approaches used in nurseries to treat water
- "New" Ag Waivers from two regional water quality control boards
- The use of controlled-release fertilizers (CRF) as part of a Best Management Program (BMP) to improve nutrient uptake efficiency and mitigate nutrient runoff
- Tailoring fertilizer rates for diverse nursery crops
- The Australian ornamental production industry: How things work down under
- Karrie Reid named environmental horticulture advisor in San Joaquin County
- Bedding Plant IPM in California
- IPM Program update
- Foliar Nematodes
- The Farm Business and Market Place
- Controlled Environment Agriculture
- LED Technology for Crop Production in Controlled Environments
- Manipulating Plant Growth Responses with LEDs
- Phytophthora in Restoration and Forest Nurseries
- Phytophthora Crown and Root Rot Symptoms and Detection
- Can Fresh Wood Chip Amendments Suppress Root Pathogens?
- Neonicotinoids: An Objective Assessment
- Piercing-Sucking Insects and Systemic Insecticides
- Update on Biological Control and the Challenges Growers Face
- Get Cultured
- Sanitation and Treatment for Pathogens in Recycled Water
- GET CULTURED: Fertilizer and media management during El Niño
- GET CULTURED: Horticultural practices to conserve water and mitigate salt precipitation in container production
- GET CULTURED: Reclaimed water use in nursery production
- GET CULTURED: Managing media to optimize water use
- GET CULTURED: Silicon in plant nutrition
- GET CULTURED: When disease symptoms are caused by poor nutritional or cultural practices
- GET CULTURED: Non-chemical prevention of weeds in containers
- GET CULTURED: Drainage channels and vegetated filter strips in nurseries Part II
- GET CULTURED: Drainage channels and vegetated filter strips in nurseries Part I
- GET CULTURED: Fertilizer Management When using Secondary Water Sources
- GET CULTURED: Nitrogen and water use of winter- and summer-growing succulents
- Get Cultured: Monitoring electrical conductivity of irrigation water and rooting media
- Gleanings from Meetings
- CDFA nursery advisory board report Spring 2016
- CDFA nursery advisory board report Fall 2016
- Fall 2016 California Nursery Conference
- 2011 Scouting and Spray Evaluation Workshop
- ABCs of Fertilizer and Irrigation Management
- Is Nursery Insurance Practical to Manage Risk in Your Business?
- CDFA nursery advisory board report Winter 2015
- CDFA Nursery Advisory Board Report Summer 2017
- CDFA Nursery Advisory Report Winter 2018
- INSECT HOT TOPICS
- Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle
- Insect hot topics: Chinese Rose Beetle
- INSECT HOT TOPICS: Lobate lac scale
- INSECT HOT TOPICS: Daylily leafminers
- INSECT HOT TOPICS: Euonymus caterpillars
- INSECT HOT TOPICS: Japanese beetles
- INSECT HOT TOPICS: Emerald ash borer update and rose rosette
- INSECT HOT TOPICS: Brown marmorated stink bug
- INSECT HOT TOPICS: Ligurian Leafhopper
- INSECT HOT TOPICS: Emerald ash borer on the move
- INSECT HOT TOPICS: New scale insect in Hawaii
- Insect Hot Topics: Two New Pests from Florida
- INSECT HOT TOPICS: Spotted lanternfly
- INSECT HOT TOPICS: Sweet potato and rough sweet potato weevils
- New Publications
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- Winter 2015 New Publications
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- Fall 2014 New Publications
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- Fall 2013 New Publications
- Summer 2013 New Publications
- Spring 2013 New Publications
- Fall 2012 New Publications
- Summer 2012 New Publications
- Spring 2012 New Publications
- Fall 2011 New Publications
- Spring 2011 New Publications
- Winter 2011 New Publications
- Spring 2010 New Publications
- Spring 2016 New Publications
- Regional Report Orange and Los Angeles Counties
- Regional Report San Benito and Santa Clara Counties
- Regional Report San Diego and Riverside Counties
- Summer 2016: Chilli thrips
- San Diego/Riverside: Salts at work again
- Spring 2015: Three unusual diagnoses
- Spring 2015 Field Observations: Ficus eye-spot midge
- Fall 2014: Light Brown Apple Moth Update
- Fall 2014 Field Observations: The Neonicotinoids
- Summer 2014: First detection of Colletotrichum cymbidiicola in California and Water Supply Update
- Spring 2014: Steam treatment of sago palms infested with scale
- Spring 2014 Field Observations: The Coqui frog
- Fall 2013: Do insects proliferate in response to better plant nutrition?
- Fall 2013 Field Observations: Recent insects from Florida
- Summer 2013: European pepper moth update
- Summer 2013: Dave Shaw Retirement News
- Spring 2013: Hot Water Treatments to Control Pests
- Summer 2013 Field Observations
- Summer 2012: Citrus greening in California
- Summer 2012 Field Observations
- Spring 2012: Thrips resistance management
- Spring 2012 Field Observations
- Fall 2011: Getting Serious About Palm Weevils
- Fall 2011 Field Observations
- Spring 2011: Time to get serious about water in San Diego County
- Spring 2011 Field Observations
- Winter 2011: Regional Report: Biology and Control of the Myoporum Thrips
- Winter 2011 Field Observations
- Spring 2010: Integrated pest management of the aloe mite
- Spring 2010 Field Observations
- Spring 2016: Agave pests
- Regional Report Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties
- Fall 2016 Field Observations: Foamy bark canker and sudden death
- Winter 2015: Potential impact of El Niño on Phytophthora diseases
- Fall 2015: A simple approach to knowing when to irrigate ornamental potted crops
- Spring 2015: Ramorum blight and how to keep it out of your nursery
- Spring 2015: Pathogen field test kits
- Fall 2014: Effect of Insecticides on Light Brown Apple Moth Larvae of Different Ages
- Fall 2014 Field Observations: Phytophthora tentaculata
- Summer 2014: Retrospective on improving irrigation management
- Spring 2014: Light brown apple moth update on regulations and research
- Spring 2014 Field Observations: Polyphagous shot hole borer detected in Santa Cruz County
- Fall 2013: News related to Central Coast water quality
- Fall 2013 Field Observations: Diagnosis of a poinsettia problem
- Summer 2013: Improving water quality with polyacrylamide (PAM) polymers
- Spring 2013: LBAM field data available for Monterey Bay Area growers
- Fall 2012: Ag economic issues and LBAM update
- Fall 2012 Field Observations: Fusarium Wilt
- Summer 2012: New anthracnose disease on New Zealand flax
- Spring 2012: Herbicides for vegetation control on roadsides
- Fall 2011: Environmental conditions could be monitored in the nursery to limit the spread of sudden oak death
- Spring 2011: Light brown apple moth management in nursery stock: Mating disruption control strategy proven useful but incomplete
- Spring 2011 Field Observations
- Winter 2011: European grapevine moth: a new major pest on grapes, now in Central California, with potential impact on the ornamental nursery industry
- Spring 2010: Light brown apple moth: Now what happens to IPM?
- Spring 2010 Field Observations
- Spring 2016: Evidence of pyrethroid insecticides and sediment in surface water in Lower Salinas River Watershed
- Summer 2017 Field observations: Boxwood blight found in Bay Area residential landscapes
- Look out for new diseases and pests in the Monterey Bay Area
- Regional Report Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties
- Winter 2015: Wind and rain, the grower’s bain
- Spring 2015: Bot fungi wreak havoc during drought
- Fall 2014: Cool weather diseases of nursery crops
- Summer 2014: Drought exacerbates root rots
- Spring 2014: Polyphagous shot hole borer look-alikes
- Fall 2013: A comparison of organic fertilizers
- Summer 2013: Water quality management plans
- Summer 2013: Retirement News
- Spring 2013: Management of the Bagrada bug in nurseries
- Fall 2012: News and Resources Related to Ag Labor
- Summer 2012: Black foot disease
- Summer 2012 Field Observations
- Spring 2012: Managing Invasive Plants in Nurseries
- Fall 2011: Mitigating Pesticide Runoff While Managing Invasive Pests
- Spring 2011: How Aussie growers are addressing water issues, Part II
- Spring 2011 Field Observations
- Spring 2011: Risk management workshop held in Carpinteria
- Winter 2011: How Aussie nursery growers are addressing the water issue
- Summer 2014: Drought exacerbates root rots
- Science to the Grower
- SCIENCE TO THE GROWER: Sync and Swim Pythium and Phytophthora don’t mind asking for directions
- Science to the Grower: Are plants intelligent enough to earn a scouting merit badge?
- SCIENCE TO THE GROWER: Who is lighting whom?
- SCIENCE TO THE GROWER: Do Plants Need Water? Science Has the Answers!
- SCIENCE TO THE GROWER: No matter how you spell edema, it’s an excrescent intumescence on the plant leaf
- SCIENCE TO THE GROWER: A Nobel idea for plant lighting
- SCIENCE TO THE GROWER: Hydrogels do not decrease water use in container plant production
- SCIENCE TO THE GROWER: Is sustainable ornamental crop production sustainable?
- SCIENCE TO THE GROWER: How to handle salt in a recirculating irrigation system
- SCIENCE TO THE GROWER: One thrips, two thrips, fed thrips, dead thrips
- SCIENCE TO THE GROWER: Pipe dreams and postharvest schemes
- Science to the Grower: Are liverworts lost in the ozone?
- Science to the Grower: How much would you pay for a plant out of place?
- Science to the Grower: Give your potting mix the gentle and clean smell of freshly laundered linens while it repels insect pests
- Science to the Grower: Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream: Is there a place for silicon in an ornamental IPM program?
- Science to the Grower: The cold, hard facts about plant factories with artificial light
- SCIENCE TO THE GROWER: How do you put a bee in the plant-buyer's bonnet?
- SCIENCE TO THE GROWER: Clearing the air
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