Natalia James Ott

Jaime Ott

Orchard Crops Advisor

njott@ucanr.edu
M.S. Marine Science, College of William and Mary. 2012
B.S. Biology, emphasis in Plant Biology, University of California, Davis. 2009
Walnuts, Prunes, Almonds, Olives

I am a UCCE Orchard Systems Advisor for Tehama, Shasta, Glenn, and Butte Counties. My primary crop responsibilities are walnut, prune, almond, and olive, but I am happy to try and field questions about anything with chlorophyll. I am finishing up my PhD from the UC Davis Department of Plant Pathology, where I have done work assessing walnut and almond rootstocks for resistance to crown rot caused by Phytophthora. I have also been involved in testing whole orchard recycling in almonds and optimizing anaerobic soil disinfestation (ASD) as an alternative to fumigation when replanting almond orchards.