July-September 2006 2006 California Agriculture Table of Contents

July-September 2006 2006 California Agriculture Table of Contents

COVER: Pollen-coated bees on a passion flower. Pollination is one of the ways that transgenic crops can hybridize with other crops and native plants. (No transgenic passion flowers have been field-tested in California) Photo by Howard Creech.

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Issue date: July-Sept 2006

Logo for California Agriculture 60th birthday

Editor’s note: The first issue
of California Agriculture —
a four-page, black-and-white, newsprint tabloid — was published in December 1946.
In honor of the magazine’s 60th anniversary, we will be publishing excerpts from past decades throughout the year.

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News

Editorial
Ludden, Van Alfen, Angle
Wise use of biotechnology
critical to sustainable future

Outlook
Timeline uncertain for agricultural biotechnology
Peggy G. Lemaux

Letters
Healthy forests and Tahoe clarity, survey responses.

California Agriculture begins posting articles to California Digital Library

Research update
UC works to monitor, prevent, contain avian flu

Research seeks to adapt conservation tillage for California fields

40 years ago in
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News releases

Current

Research and reviews

BIOTECH RISKS & BENEFITS When crop transgenes wander in California, should we worry?
Norman C. Ellstrand
Most crops naturally crossbreed with wild relatives, but opportunities for unintended engineered-gene movement in California are limited at present.
Scientists evaluate potential environmental risks of transgenic crops
Norman C. Ellstrand
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Careful risk assessment needed to evaluate transgenic fish
Alison L. Van Eenennaam and Paul G. Olin
Fish are perhaps the easiest animals to genetically engineer, but also among the most difficult to contain; environmental risks must therefore be carefully assessed.
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What is the future of animal biotechnology?
Alison L. Van Eenennaam
Cloning and genetic engineering in animal agriculture are currently limited due to technical, commercial, regulatory and public acceptance concerns.
ABSTRACT | FULL TEXT PDF

Conservation tillage production systems compared in San Joaquin Valley cotton
by Jeffrey P. Mitchell, Daniel S. Munk, Bob Prys,
Karen K. Klonsky, Jon F. Wroble and Richard L. De Moura
Alternative tillage systems significantly reduced cotton tractor passes, fuel use and production costs.
ABSTRACT | FULL TEXT PDF

Conservation tillage and cover cropping influence soil properties in San Joaquin Valley cotton-tomato crop
by Jessica J. Veenstra, William R. Horwath,
Jeffrey P. Mitchell and Daniel S. Munk
After 4 years, conservation tillage treatments improved physical properties of soil, but alone it negatively affected some fertility measures.
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Dietary quality is not linked across three generations of black women
by Joanne P. Ikeda, Constance L. Lexion, Barbara J. Turner, Margaret C. Johns, Yvonne Nicholson, Mary L. Blackburn and Rita A. Mitchell
Contrary to the conventional wisdom, better-nourished grandmothers and mothers did not have better-nourished daughters.
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Western cattle prices vary across video markets and value-adding programs
by Steven C. Blank, Hayley Boriss, Larry Forero and Glenn Nader
Seven years of video auction data were analyzed to assess regional cattle-price differences and evaluate which practices garner price premiums.
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