California epitomizes the agriculture-climate challenge, as well as its opportunities. As the United States’ largest agricultural producing state agriculture also accounted for approximately 8% of California’s greenhouse gas emissions statewide for the period 2000–2013. At the same time, California is at the forefront of innovative approaches to CSA. Given the state’s Mediterranean climate, part of an integrated…

As expected, the cluster heat storage tended to be negative in the morning as the berries began to rapidly warm, and positive in the afternoon while generally cooling and releasing heat .The time series of measured and simulated berry temperature were compared graphically for east- and west-facing clusters in order to qualitatively assess model performance…

Many post harvest strategies are designed to extend fruit shelf life, but often result in loss of fruit quality, and may unintentionally contribute to post harvest waste. While the relationship between DNA methylation and tomato fruit ripening is well understood , it was not known what effect early harvest and storage temperature, which often disrupt the ripening…

The first relies on quantitative probe-based PCR, while the second diagnostic uses a newly developed CRISPR-Cas12a system, which enables rapid detection with simpler equipment than quantitative real-time PCR. In summary, my thesis provides genomic resources and a knowledge of migration history and patterns for these two agricultural pests with significant economic implications. This information, combined…

For species-rich lineages, phylogenetic reconstructions from published studies were used to gather information on the character states of fruit type and growth habit inferred for ancestors of these lineages, as is typically included in this type of study . For the few radiating lineages for which phylogenetic information has not yet been generated, character states…

Using the fungal ortholog dataset of the Benchmarking Universal Single-Copy Orthologs tool , we determined that our assemblies presented high completeness, with 88.2 and 90.3% of F. acuminatum and R. stolonifer matchesbeing complete, respectively. Our F. acuminatum transcriptome contained 20,117 unique transcripts, while our R. stolonifer transcriptome contained 19,754 . We then used homology-based annotation…

Beyond simply fruit or seed size, actual dimensions or shape can influence foraging decisions of endozoochorous and synzoochorous dispersers. For example, fruit diameter independent of length or overall mass is thought to be the most important metric of fruit size for frugivorous birds based on how fruits are swallowed . Acorn shape also influences preference…

In the Drosophila example however, the “platform” was spread over several hundred base pairs. In plants, a more comparable example might be the PcG binding site demonstrated in LEAFY COTYLEDONS2, where PcG proteins recognized an RLE motif that contained several cis-motifs in a region 50bp long. Interestingly, analysis of FERTILIZATION INDEPENDENT target sites found in A.…

However, even if reported in terms of the alternate bearing index or fruit biomass, the use of averaging and biological replicates would obscure the signal before dosage sensitive responses could be extracted from the data. In order to avoid this issue, the present study examined the effects of fruit load in A. thaliana. Although an annual…

Accelerated fruit deterioration due to CBF1 over expression may be advantageous for seed dispersal Ripening is an early stage in the continuous process leading to senescence , and it may include changes in fruit color, firmness, and flavor. PCI compromises the normal transition between chloroplast and chromoplast during ripening , even after transfer to warmer conditions…