Researchers at UC Davis have bred a new variety of walnut designed to provide growers a way to harvest earlier and boost the efficiency of California’s $1.6 billion walnut industry. The new “UC ...

The UC Wolfskill walnut will allow growers to harvest earlier and still provide quality, yield and color of the state’s leading variety. (Jeanine Hasey) University of California, Davis, ...

Walnuts, a top California export crop, grow in orchards like this. Scientists at the University of California, Davis, have for the first time sequenced the genome of a commercial walnut variety. The ...

The Walnut Bargaining Association increased its minimum price recommendation on Oct. 16 to 70 cents per pound in-shell. That’s based on jumbo/large Chandler walnuts of good quality. “We urge walnut ...

Scientists at UC Davis have for the first time sequenced the genome of a commercial walnut variety. The information should accelerate the rate of breeding and variety improvement in walnuts and help ...

The information should accelerate the rate of breeding and variety improvement in walnuts and help breeders select for desired traits such as insect and disease resistance, and drought tolerance. UC ...