UC Riverside

The old saying is “my enemy’s enemy is my friend”; and that could be very true for tree fruit growers across the Pacific Northwest, and the entire United States. Researchers at Washington State University recently confirmed the discovery of a parasitoid wasp, a natural enemy of the spotted-wing drosophila. Betsy Be ...

Researchers, led by a University of California Riverside team, have come up with a way to help crops flourish in drought as well as “normal” conditions. It’s a chemical called Antabactin, which suppresses the hormone that prevents seeds from germinating when temperatures are high. UCR’s Aditya Va ...

The University of California-Riverside is studying ways to help plants deal with rising temperatures.  While not immune to changing climate, plants respond to the rising mercury in different ways.  Temperature affects the distribution of plants around the planet.  It also affects t...