Research, politics, and the public good

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Fuel alcohol from Jerusalem artichoke

Problems with chemical control of pear psylla

Ethephon is of doubtful value on Thompson Seedless table grapes

Bacterial blight on Persian walnuts

Wheat response to drought

Women in the agricultural labor market

Monitoring peach twig borer in almonds with sex pheromone traps

New monitoring methods for the walnut husk fly

Control of the walnut husk fly with pyrethroids and bait

Fertilizing summer-planted strawberries in California's Central Coast

Leafminer species causes California mum growers new problems

could become a problem on celery

A laboratory study of three strains of codling moth, Carpocapsa pomonella (Linnaeus), exhibiting tolerance to DDT in the field