by Deac Jones | Feb 14, 2017 | News
We all know that an adequate and balanced supply of all mineral nutrients is critical for optimum fruit set. I think this year is going to be especially challenging given the amount of rain that we’ve experienced and the amount of mineral flush and heavy leaching of...
by Deac Jones | Feb 7, 2017 | News
Every year California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) produces their yearly report which is always interesting although the amount of information can be overwhelming. Lots of food for thought to ponder with no pun intended: The sales value generated by...
by Deac Jones | Jan 31, 2017 | Related Articles
I’m frequently talking about how technologies greatest impact on agriculture could be in new measurements. New research has uncovered a previously unknown means by which plants are able to regulate how their immune systems respond to pathogens. “A group...
by Deac Jones | Jan 31, 2017 | News
New research, being published January 20 in the journal Science, has uncovered a previously unknown means by which plants are able to regulate how their immune systems respond to pathogens. A group of small peptides, referred to as RALFs (Rapid ALkalinization...
by Deac Jones | Jan 30, 2017 | Newsletters
In the current study, we demonstrated that the chitin soil amendment strategy which was previously known to be effective against plant pathogens (e.g., Dutta and Isaac, 1979; Hallmann et al., 1999; Cretoiu et al., 2013) also is able to control Salmonella on leafy...
