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UCR citrus group
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Citrus - Old Ways, the Best Ways?

April 2nd, 2021
https://news.ucr.edu/author/jules-bernstein UC Riverside scientists are betting an ancient solution will solve citrus growers' biggest problem by breeding new fruits with natural resistance to a deadly tree disease. New hybrid citrus fruit bred for disease resistance and flavor.
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VP Humiston fielded questions about ANR from CUCSA delegates. Screenshot by Dohee Kim
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Humiston addresses CUCSA

March 30th, 2021
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
Vice President Glenda Humiston spoke to the Council of UC Staff Assemblies delegation at their quarterly meeting on March 4. To give the CUCSA delegates an overview of UC ANR, she presented "Bringing the power of UC directly to all Californians.
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Volunteers working on a community vegetable garden in Riverside
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UCCE building oasis of health in ethnic urban communities

March 15th, 2021
By Ricardo A Vela
The hard work of CalFresh Healthy Living, UC educators in Riverside, to build community gardens before the pandemic hit resulted in one of the few available activities ethnic communities in this Southern California county got to enjoy throughout 2020.
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With a value of $6.1 billion, California accounted for over half of U.S. fresh vegetable production in 2018. Photo by Shermain Hardesty,
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Will California remain leader in U.S. agricultural production?

March 5th, 2021
New book shows how California has led the nation in farm sales since 1948 and explores future challenges "California Agriculture: Dimensions and Issues" by the Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics details the past, present and future of many of California's major agricultural commodities, i...
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A Madagascar hissing cockroach from the Bohart Museum of Entomology, UC Davis. This is similar to what Bruce Hammock was rearing for a research project. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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When Bruce Hammock's Cockroaches Achieved Stardom

February 23rd, 2021
If you're meandering around the UC Riverside campus and see a cockroach, it might have a connection to UC Davis distinguished professor Bruce Hammock. This is a story of what might have been that never was and never will be and it all has to do with Hammock's cockroaches.
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