Jackson, Louise E.
(530) 754-9116, 754-9145 – Also at UC Davis Research Facility in Salinas: (408) 755-2889 – lejackson@ucdavis.eduPettygrove, Stuart
(530) 752-2533 - gspettygrove@ucdavis.eduScow, Kate M.
(530) 752-4632 – kmscow@ucdavis.edu
Gubler, Doug.
(530) 752-0304 – wdgubler@ucdavis.edu
MacDonald, James D.
(530) 752-6897 – jdmacdonald@ucdavis.edu
Research interests include biology and epidemiology of foliar pathogens of
fruit crops, with emphasis on grapevine and strawberry diseases; trees, vines and small fruits.
Etiology and control of plant diseases, with an emphasis on the areas
of root diseases, soil microbiology, diseases of ornamentals, and the role
of environmental stress in plant disease.
PLANT SCIENCES
Berry, Alison M.
(530) 752-7683 – amberry@ucdavis.edu
Bloom, Arnold J. Blumwald, Eduardo. Bradford, Kent J. Brown, Patrick H. Burger, David W. Cantwell, Marita I. Chetelat, Roger T. Crisosto, Carlos H. Dandekar, Abhaya M. DeJong, Ted M. DiTomaso, Joseph. Dubcovsky, Jorge. Durzan, Don J. Dvorák, Jan.
Assessment of nitrogen-fixing landscape plants; cellular and molecular
studies of root and nodule development; tree architecture and tree hazards;
urban ecology.
Nutrient acquisition and carbon assimilation in relation to environmental
stress; mechanisms of nitrogen uptake and assimilation.
Cellular and molecular bases of adaptation of plants to biotic and abiotic stress;
the molecular bases of fruit quality.
Development, maintenance, and expression of seed quality; plant water
relations; developmental and growth regulation.
Mineral nutrition of deciduous fruit and nut crops. Sustainable
agriculture.
Woody plant developmental physiology; cell and tissue culture; plant
propagation; water use in container-grown nursery plants.
Preharvest factors affecting postharvest quality; postharvest recommendations
for specialty vegetables; alternatives to postharvest fungicides and quarantine
fumigants; physiology and handling of lightly processed vegetables.
Molecular and classical genetics of tomato; wide hybridization and
interspecific incompatibility; use of molecular markers in breeding; germplasm
conservation.
Postharvest biology and technology; fruit quality and safety.
Understanding of the preharvest factors that control fruit quality and
storage.
Transfer, expression and regulation of foreign genes in fruit and nut
crops. Metabolic regulation and the cellular and molecular response of
plants to environmental stress.
Environmental plant physiology; photosynthetic efficiency of tree crops
relative to the utilization of nitrogen, water, and solar radiation.
Biology and control of invasive species, in non-crop areas, including
rangeland, forests, aquatics, natural ecosystems, utilities and rights-of-way.
Species include yellow star thistle, Scotch thistle, perennial pepperweed,
pampasgrass or jubata grass, and woody species in reforestation areas.
Wheat molecular genetics, genomics and breeding. Main interests are genes
affecting flowering time, senescence, and frost tolerance.
Tree biotechnology, with emphasis on oogenesis, parthenogenesis, somatic
embryogenesis and polyembryogenesis; protoplast culture and genetic trans
formation; anti-cancer compounds through cell and tissue culture; nitrogen
metabolism and adaptive phenotypic plasticity; endangered boreal forest,
tropical and semi-tropical fruit trees.
Evolution of plant genomes and chromosomes; evolution of wheat and
related species; construction of linkage maps based on molecular markers
in wheat and related species in the tribe Triticeae; mechanism of the action
of the Ph1 gene of wheat on crossing over between homoeologous chromosomes;
molecular mechanisms of salt stress tolerance in wheat and its improvement.
Evans, Richard Y.
(530) 752-6617 – ryevans@ucdavis.edu
Management of commercial flower and nursery crops;
nutrition of ornamental plants; container soil-plant interactions;
propagation, production, and field establishment of plants for ecological restoration.
Eviner, Valerie.
(530) 752-8538 – veviner@ucdavis.edu
Fennimore, Steven A. Ferguson, Louise. Fischer, Albert J.
(530) 752-7386 – ajfischer@ucdavis.edu
Geng, Shu.
(530) 752-6939 – sgeng@ucdavis.edu
Gepts, Paul L. Goyal, Sham.
(530) 752-2472 – ssgoyal@ucdavis.edu
Gradziel, Thomas M. Harding, James A.
(530) 752-0349 – jaharding@ucdavis.edu
Hartz, Timothy K. Hill, James E.
(530) 752-3458 – jehill@ucdavis.edu
Inoue, Kentaro Jackson, Lee F.
(530) 752-0701 – lfjackson@ucdavis.edu
Jasieniuk, Marie A. Jernstedt, Judy.
(530) 752-7166 – jjernstedt@ucdavis.edu
Johnson, Scott. Kaffka, S.
(530) 752-8108 – srkaffka@ucdavis.edu
Labavitch, John M. Laca, Emilio A.
(530) 754-4083 – ealaca@ucdavis.edu
Lampinen, Bruce Lanini, W. Thomas. Lieth, J. Heinrich.
(530) 752-7198 – jhlieth@ucdavis.edu
McGranahan, Gale.
(530) 752-0113 – ghmcgranahan@ucdavis.edu
McPherson, Greg.
(530) 752-5897 – egmcpherson@ucdavis.edu
Michelmore, Richard W. Mitcham, Beth. Mitchell, Jeffrey P. Neale, David B. Negre-Zakharov, Florence.
(530) 752-4374 – fnegre@ucdavis.edu
Nevins, Donald J. Oki, Lorence R.
(530) 754-4135 – lroki@ucdavis.edu
Parfitt, Dan E. Phillips, Donald A.
(530) 752-1891 – daphillips@ucdavis.edu
Plant, Richard E. Polito, Vito S. Potter, Dan. Putnam, Daniel H.
(530) 752-8982 – dhputnam@ucdavis.edu
Quiros, Carlos F. Reid, Michael S. Shackel, Kenneth. Shaw, Douglas V. Six, Johan. St. Clair, Dina. Suslow, Trevor V. Tate, Ken.
(530) 752-0750 – kwtate@ucdavis.edu
Temple, Steve R.
(530) 752-8216 – srtemple@ucdavis.edu
Teuber, Larry R.
(530) 752-2461 – lrteuber@ucdavis.edu
Van Deynze, Allen
(530) 754-6444 – avandeynze@ucdavis.edu
Van Horn, Mark.
(530) 752-7645 – mxvanhorn@ucdavis.edu
van Kessel, Chris. Yoder, John I. Young, Truman P.
Fidelibus, Matthew W. Matthews, Mark A.
McElrone, Andrew J.
(530) 754-9763 – ajmcelrone@ucdavis.edu
Smart, David R. Walker, M. Andrew. Williams, Larry E. Wolpert, James A.
Plant-soil feedbacks; ecosystem restoration; ecosystem management; plant
functional traits; ecosystem effects of plant species and plant species mixtures
(and how those change depending on plant neighbors, environmental conditions and
management practices); rangeland ecology; invasive species; plant-microbial interactions
Weed management in vegetable crops and small fruits,
as well as weed seed physiology and seed bank ecology.
Production of pistachios, olives, citrus, figs, and persimmons; alternate
bearing, pruning and rootstock evaluation; boron nutrition of pistachios;
evaluation of citrus rootstocks for grapefruits and Mandarins; introduction
of Mandarins, nitrogen fertigation; olive water use; fig cultivar and caprifig
breeding; persimmon thinning.
Ecophysiology and competition of weeds in rice, ecology, herbicide-resistant
weeds, integrated weed management.
Agricultural/systems; modeling and simulation of environmental impact
on agricultural production and food systems; productivity and risk assessment;
comparisons of agricultural systems in Pacific Rim countries; fluent in
Chinese.
Genetics of food legumes: crop evolution, genetic conservation, genomics,
molecular evolution; use of information technology in teaching. Language
abilities: spoken and written fluency in French, Flemish (Dutch), Spanish;
some spoken German. Conducted research/taught in Latin America (Colombia,
Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina), Africa (Malawi), Europe (Belgium,
Germany, France).
Regulation of nitrogen uptake, metabolism, and usage efficiency; physiology
of abiotic stress (e.g., salinity) and tolerance; site-specific tillage
for reduced energy input; research and analytical techniques and instrumentation.
Genetics of Prunus species; plant breeding.
Genetics and breeding of flower crops, with an emphasis on Gerbera;
multivariate statistical methods; multitrait selection, inbreeding and
crossbreeding; clonal selection and cultivar evaluation.
Culture and management of warm-season vegetables; soil and plant fertility;
crop stand establishment.
Conducts research and education programs on rice based cropping systems,
with focus on production technologies such as direct seeding, weed control,
nutrition, residue management, and the relationship of these factors to
environmental quality.
Postharvest biology - developmental change of plastid metabolome and proteome
during fruit ripening; plastid biogenesis - target and assembly of a protein
translocation channel and its homologue in the outer envelope membrane of the organelle.
Growth and development of small grain crops (wheat, barley, oat, triticale);
plant breeding; epidemiology and control of small grain diseases; pathogen
variability and host resistance; genetics of host/parasite interaction;
integrated pest management and integrated crop management.
Ecological genetics and evolution of agricultural weeds and invasive plants of
natural systems.
Plant anatomy and morphology, plant developmental biology; roles of
cell division, enlargement and differentiation in tissue and
organ-level development; meristem determination; leaf development; systematics
of chlorogalum (Liliaceae); post- harvest processing and defects of cotton
fibers; cotton fiber cell wall cytochemistry.
Production of plums, freestone peaches, nectarines, kiwi-fruit, apples, and Asian pears.
Investigates ways to improve crop production efficiency and environmental
quality relative to crop production; works at the commodity and farming
systems levels.
Postharvest biology of fruit and nuts; emphasis on cell wall polysaccharide
metabolism and biochemistry of host-pathogen interactions.
Foraging behavior, range management, spatial heterogeneity and geostatistical
applications; agricultural ecologist.
Integrated orchard management, with emphasis on almonds and walnuts; current
projects include regional variety trials, rootstock trials, and canopy management research.
Low input weed control in vegetables and agronomic crops.
Greenhouse and nursery crop ecology; development of models and production
tools for Easter lily, rose, chrysanthemum, and other ornamental crops;
greenhouse environment control automation; automated irrigation.
Walnut breeding and genetics: gene transfer techniques, micropropagation
and tissue culture; techniques for screening for disease resistance; inter-specific
and inter-generic hybrids, and determination of the inheritance of response to major walnut diseases.
Urban forestry; benefits and costs of urban vegetation, with an emphasis
on climate, energy, carbon, and water use.
Lettuce genetics and breeding; classical and molecular genetics of
disease resistance; plant biotechnology.
Alternatives to postharvest chemicals for control of insects, decay
and physiological disorders; fruit responses to postharvest handling systems.
Vegetable production; water management; agricultural ecology; crop management
impacts on postharvest quality.
Discovery and understanding of the function of genes in forest trees,
especially those controlling complex traits.
Biochemistry of fruit flavors and aromas; investigation of the biochemical
pathways involved in aroma formation in fruits and the regulation of these
pathways during fruit maturation and after harvest.
Regulation of cell elongation; cell wall metabolism; components of
tissue texture in ripening fruit.
Management of irrigation in landscapes and nurseries;
effect of water quality (salinity) on plant growth;
evaluating California native plants for use in landscape horticulture;
introduction of plants for environmental horticulture.
Breeding and genetics of pistachio; characterization of genetic diversity
in fruit and nut tree germplasm.
Natural products; plant biochemistry, plant physiology, plant-microbe
interactions, soil microbiology.
Plant application of systems analysis to crop and resource management;
including artificial intelligence; database management and mathematical
modeling.
Reproductive biology of fruit tree species, especially aspects of reproductive
maturation, flowering, pollination and fruit-set.
Plant systematics; taxonomy, evolution, and phylogenetic relationships
of fruit crops and their wild relatives; molecular approaches to phylogeny
reconstruction; ethnobotany.
Alfalfa and forage crops systems, alternative field crops, crop ecology.
Molecular cytogenetics and genome evolution of cole crops and potatoes;
celery genetics and breeding.
Postharvest technology; handling and marketing of environmental plants;
postharvest physiology; physiology of flowering; chilling injury; action
of ethylene; molecular biology of flower senescence.
Impact of tree water status on productivity; water relations and physiological
activity of fruit.
Quantitative genetics and plant breeding methods; breeding, testing
and selection of small fruits, especially strawberries.
Biogeochemistry and ecosystem functioning, focusing on the relationship
between the carbon and nitrogen cycle in determining ecosystem functioning.
Tomato genetics and breeding; classical and molecular genetics in plant
improvement; manipulation of quantitative traits and gene introgression.
Integrated biotechnologies for postharvest quality; postharvest pathology
and biocontrol; microbial-based postharvest quality and safety issues;
Intelligent Transportation Systems.
Rangeland hydrology, water quality, nonpoint source pollution, grazing management.
Agronomy and host plant resistance breeding of grain legumes, sustainable
farming systems; fluent in Spanish.
Genetics and biology of forages: floral characters influencing alfalfa
pollination by honey bees, seed production; breeding for resistance to
diseases and insects, including fungal diseases, lygus bugs and whiteflies;
genetics of management alternatives in irrigated agriculture, including
planting date, tolerance to "summer dry-down" irrigation management, fall
dormancy and cool season production. Additional expertise in germplasm
collection and evaluation, import and export of genetic materials (APHIS),
winter nursery management.
Biotechnology; development and application of molecular markers;
development of novel traits in seed crops through biotechnology.
Agronomy, soil fertility, nutrient cycling, cropping systems, international
agriculture.
Plant genomics, parasitic plants, transposable elements and genome
fluidity; plant-plant communications; plant molecular genetics.
Plant population and community ecology; human-dominated landscapes;
conservation and restoration; semi-arid temperate and tropical ecosystems;
plant animal interactions. Edges, buffers, and restoration in urban,
agricultural, and natural landscapes. Experimental manipulation of
wild and domestic herbivores in semi-arid rangeland.
VITICULTURE
Adams, Douglas O.
(530) 752-1902 – doadams@ucdavis.edu
Characterization of biochemical pathways and enzyme systems that influence
maturation and metabolism of grapes and grapevines. Particular emphasis
is given to elucidation of pathways producing important end-products in
vinifera grapes, and biochemical changes that occur in table and raisin
grapes after harvest.
Extension Viticulturist; Effect of cultural practices.
Environmental control of growth, productivity, and fruit quality,
emphasizing photosynthesis; biophysics of cell expansion; physiological mechanisms
involved in responses to water deficits; interactions of nutrient levels and water
deficits; varietal improvement.
Sustainable water use in vineyards: physiological responses of grapevine
roots/rootstocks to salinity, nutrients and drought; importance of
aquaporins to root water uptake; development of sap flow techniques for
grapevines with weighing lysimeter calibration; effects of vineyard floor
management on grapevine water relations
Physiological ecology of grapevine roots; plant nutrient acquisition;
competition between roots and microbial organisms for nitrogen; leaf exchanges
of nitrogen trace gases; environmental and biotic controls on nitrogen trace gas emissions.
Development of grape varieties, emphasizing disease resistance and
rootstocks; genetics and mechanisms of resistance to grape pests and diseases;
evolution and taxonomy of Vitaceae.
Whole plant physiology, nutrition and water relations of grapevines; effects
of cultural practices on vine physiology; cultural techniques of the grapevine
associated with the production of raisins and table grapes; carbon assimilation
by and allocation in the vine; effect of senescence on gas exchange characteristics.
Winegrape production in coast and foothill counties and the Sacramento and
northern San Joaquin Valleys; rootstock and clonal evaluations; field-testing of
viroid-free grapevines.
Faculty with (559) phone numbers are located at the Kearney Agricultural
Center, 9240 South Riverbend Avenue, Parlier, CA 93648.
Graduate Program Assistant:
Lisa Brown
(530) 752-7738 – lfbrown@ucdavis.edu
Graduate Group in Horticulture & Agronomy Home Page