date:Mar 29, 2019
Currently, California produces 99 percent of the walnuts grown in the United States. New research could provide a major boost to the state's growing $1.6 billion walnut industry. How? By making it easier to breed walnut trees better equipped to combat the soil-borne pathogens that now plague many of California's 4,800 growers.
In a new study, a team of scientists at the University of California, Davis, and USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) used a unique approach to sequence the genomes