Outside Resources

CDFA Grapevine Registration and Certification Program

The CDFA Grapevine Registration and Certification Program is a voluntary program that governs the regulations for the testing, inspection, and maintenance of source vines.

Grape Pest Management

Grape Pest Management is a comprehensive reference in which more than 70 research scientists, cooperative extension advisors and specialists, growers, and pest control advisers have consolidated the latest scientific studies and research.

Grapevine Viruses: Molecular Biology, Diagnostics and Management

The book builds upon the last handbook (written over twenty years ago) on the part of diagnostics and extensively expands its scope by inclusion of molecular biology aspects of select viruses that are widespread and economically most important. This includes most current information on the biology, transmission, genome replication, transcription, subcellular localization, as well as virus-host interactions.

International Council for the Study of Viruses and Virus-like Diseases of the Grapevine (ICVG)

ICVG is a non-profit scientific organization that promotes worldwide research collaboration on virus and virus-like diseases of grapevines. Areas of studies by ICVG members include, but are not limited to, disease etiology, diagnostics, therapeutics, effect of graft-transmissible agents on vine health, epidemiology, management, and certification.

National Clean Plant Network - Grapes

The National Clean Plant Network - Grapes is a body of industry members, experts in plant pathology, regulators and clean plant centers that were created to develop and provide healthy grapevine material to the grape industry in the United States.

PiercesDisease.org

News and research on the deadly diseases of grapevines, Pierce’s Disease, can be found at PiercesDisease.org.

PlantGrape

For a catalog of vine varieties and clones grown in France, published in 2007 (IFV publishers), visit the PlantGrape website.

UC Berkeley Regional Oral History Office

Over the past four decades UC Berkeley Regional Oral History Office (ROHO) scholars have interviewed nearly two-hundred winemakers, chefs, restaurateurs, farmers, marketers, shop owners, educators, researchers, industry leaders, organizational officials, and writers that have helped spark the intellectual development of a Bay Area food and wine identity in the latter half of the twentieth century.

UC Davis Viticulture and Enology Library Collection

UC Davis Viticulture and Enology Library Collection holds an extensive collection of materials pertaining to the growth and development of the wine industry with materials focusing on grape growing, wine making, marketing, and distributing wine and other fermented beverages.

UC IPM Grapes

The University of California's Statewide Integrated Pest Management (UC IPM) has detailed guidelines to manage grape pest problems as well as information on establishing a year-round IPM program.

Vitis International Variety Catalogue

VIVC is an encyclopedic database with around 23,000 cultivars, breeding lines and Vitis species, existing in grapevine repositories and/or described in the bibliography. It is an information source for breeders, researchers, curators of germplasm repositories and interested wine enthusiasts.

California Pistachio Research Board

The California Pistachio Research Program operates under the oversight of the California Department of Food and Agriculture. Mandatory assessments paid by pistachio producers are used to fund research on pistachio propagation, production, harvesting, handling and preparation for market as well as provide educational opportunities and materials for pistachio growers.

Growing Pistachios in California

Information on growing pistachios in California is provided by the UC Davis Fruit & Nut Research & Center.

UC IPM Pistachios

Visit the UC IPM pest management guidelines for information on how to manage pistachio pests.

UC Pistachio and Almond Nutrient Management

The goals of this project are to survey current practices, concerns and needs in almond and pistachio nutrition, collate existing information and best management practices, and design a new initiative to increase the efficiency of fertilizer usage and guide research and educational programs.

California Fruit Tree, Nut Tree, and Grapevine Improvement Advisory Board

The California Fruit Tree, Nut Tree, and Grapevine Improvement Advisory Board (IAB) promotes production of high-quality tree and grapevine nursery stock and helps develop and promote consumer education.

Deciduous Fruit & Nut Tree Registration & Certification Program

Eligible prunus trees may be registered with the CDFA Deciduous Fruit & Nut Tree Registration & Certification Program to provide rootstock and scion sources for the propagation of certified nursery stock when inspected and tested for regulated diseases.

National Clean Plant Network – Fruit Trees

The National Clean Plant Network – Fruit Trees is a body of industry members, experts in plant pathology, regulators and clean plant centers that work together to increase the economic stability of specialty crop production in the United States.

UC ANR Fruit and Nut Research and Information Center

The UC ANR Fruit and Nut Research and Information Center has production information, research reports, events, and other resources related to growing fruit and nut trees in California.

UC IPM Fruit Trees

For guidelines on managing fruit tree pests in gardens and landscapes, visit the UC Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program.

American Rose Society

The American Rose Society exists to promote the culture, preservation and appreciation of the rose and to improve its standard of excellence for all people, through education and research.

California Center for Urban Horticulture

The California Center for Urban Horticulture, located at UC Davis, promotes scientific research and the exchange of science-based principles and practices that protect resources and enhance ecosystems in the urban environment in California.

National Clean Plant Network - Roses

The National Clean Plant Network - Roses is an association of clean plant centers, scientists, educators, state and federal regulators, large and small nurseries, rosarians and growers of garden and cut flower roses that act together to ensure that rose budwood and roostock is clean and available.

UC IPM Roses

UC IPM pest management guidelines has information on how to manage pests of roses in gardens and landscapes.

California Strawberry Commission

Yield and Disease Resistance Data for UC Strawberry Cultivars

CDFA Strawberry Registration and Certification Program

The CDFA Strawberry Registration and Certification Program is a voluntary multi-step clean stock system, ensuring that foundation stock is 100% tested for diseases of concern, and stock from subsequent growing seasons meets registered and certified regulations.

National Clean Plant Network - Berries

The National Clean Plant Network - Berries was added to the NCPN in 2010. The headquarters of the NCPN - Berries is at the USDA Horticultural Crops Research Unit in Corvallis, Oregon.

Strawberry Licensing Program

For information on the UC Davis Strawberry Breeding Program, patented cultivars, and licensing information, visit the Strawberry Licensing Program managed by the UC Davis Office of Research.

UC IPM Strawberries

Concerned about strawberry pests? The UC IPM Program has guidelines and information on how to manage strawberry pests.

California Sweetpotatoes

The California Sweetpotato Council, a voluntary organization founded in 1977, develops policies and programs that enhance the Sweetpotato industry in California.

International Potato Center

The mission of the International Potato Center is to work with partners to achieve food security, well-being, and gender equity for poor people in root and tuber farming and food systems in the developing world through research and innovation in science, technology, and capacity strengthening.

LSU Sweet Potato Research Station

The LSU Sweet Potato Research Station is the only facility of its kind devoted solely to sweet potato research. An important function of the station is providing virus-free foundation seed the farmers can plan to keep the crops healthy and sustain the industry.

National Clean Plant Network - Sweetpotato

The National Clean Plant Network - Sweetpotato is an association of clean plant centers, scientists, educators, state and federal regulators, certified seed growers, and commercial growers from the fresh market and processing industries concerned with the health of planting stock (seed roots and vine cuttings).

North Carolina SweetPotato Commission

The purpose of the North Carolina SweetPotato Commission Inc., made up of over 400 sweetpotato stakeholders, is to increase sweetpotato consumption through education, promotional activities, research and honorable horticultural practices among its producers.

UCCE Merced Sweet Potato Tips Newsletter

This newsletter features the agenda of the annual Sweet Potato Meeting and California sweet potato production notes.

National Agricultural Library

National Agricultural Library (NAL) Special Collections houses rare books, manuscript collections, nursery and seed trade catalogs, photographs, and posters from the 1500s to the present.

National Agricultural Statistics Service

USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) offers access to published statistical reports as well as a comprehensive online tool for accessing agricultural data published by NASS.

National Plant Diagnostic Network

The National Plant Diagnostic Network (NPDN) provides a cohesive, distributed system to quickly detect and identify pests and pathogens of concern.

U.S. National Plant Germplasm System: GRIN Global

Global Resources Information Network (GRIN) Global is a database that provides germplasm information about plants maintained in the U.S. National Plant Germplasm System, a collaborative effort to safeguard the genetic diversity of agriculturally important plants.

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

The UC Agriculture and Natural Resources online catalog of books and publications has free and for purchase resources on a plethora of topics such as pest management, safe methods of food preservation, and raising livestock at home.

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources - Cooperative Extension Advisors

Farm advisors extend useful, technical, and research-based information to producers in their counties. They provide leadership on local subject matter and expertise in assigned areas to determine and evaluate clientele problems.

UC Davis Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics

The UC Davis Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics makes major contributions to society in the areas of agriculture, environment and natural resources, and international development.

UC Davis Weed Research and Information Center

The UC Davis Weed Research and Information Center is an interdisciplinary collaboration that fosters research in weed management and facilitates distribution of associated knowledge for the benefit of agriculture and for the preservation of natural resources.

University of California’s Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program

University of California’s Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program offers pest management solutions to solve pest problems while minimizing risks to people and the environment. IPM can be used to manage pests in urban, agricultural, and wildland or natural areas.