The Vegetable and Strawberry Pathology Program aims to understand the biology and ecology of pathogens of these crops and to apply this knowledge toward the development of management practices that improve the economic, environmental, and social sustainability of production of vegetables and strawberry in California.

Our Work

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Photo: N. Solares
Soilborne Disease Management
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Photo: N. Solares
Extension
Biology of Soilborne Pathogens

The Latest

2019.05.06 | Welcome Anita to the Program!
2019.01.07 | Welcome Alyssa and Nader to the Program!
2018.10.30 | Sonali has left the Program to pursue other exciting endeavors :(. We appreciate her hard work, it was a pleasure having her here!
2018.09.24 | A paper on population genetics of Verticillium dahliae in Lebanon with co-authors from Lebanon, Italy, and Davis, CA, was recently accepted for publication in Plant Disease!
2018.08.21 | Lindsey and Alex attended the team meeting for the Specialty Crops Research Initiative project in Davis and heard about everyone's exciting progress.
2018.07.28 | Natalie and Alex attended the International Congress of Plant Pathology in Boston, with Natalie presenting her work on southern blight in processing tomato.
2018.05.11 | Lindsey has begun pursuit of an Ph.D. in the Plant Pathology Graduate Program. Welcome Lindsey to the Program!
2017.11.17 | Welcome Sonali to the Program!
2017.09.28 | Natalie has begun pursuit of an M.S. in the Plant Pathology Graduate Program. Thanks go to Natalie for her hard work as an Assistant Specialist at getting the Program going!
2017.08.24 | We are part of a project just funded by the USDA Specialty Crops Research Initiative on disease resistant strawberry breeding! The project is led by the UC Davis Strawberry Breeding Program and includes collaborators at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, UC Davis, UC Cooperative Extension, University of Florida, and UC Santa Cruz. See the press release or Research for details. Looking forward to this project!
2017.07.24 | Welcome Andrew to the Program!