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Key to delicious tree fruit is keeping it out of the "killing zone"

The fond memories of delicious peaches just plucked from a backyard tree or purchased at a roadside stand can now be relived with fruit picked up at the neighborhood grocery store. The key to great-tasting fruit with a pleasing texture, according to a UC scientist based at the Kearney Research and Extension Center near Parlier, is in the way it is handled after harvest.


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Scientists seek to understand how mosquitoes find their prey

Identifying exactly how female mosquitoes detect their human prey is crucial to developing strategies for mosquito control and reducing mosquito bites, says chemical ecologist Walter Leal, professor of entomology at the University of California, Davis.

UC Cooperative Extension offers sheep shearing school

The fine art of sheep shearing will be taught in a school being offered in May by the University of California Cooperative Extension on the North Coast.

UC Integrated Pest Management Program

The UC Integrated Pest Management program has been at the forefront of computerized communications since its inception in the early 1980s.

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