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Tomato ripening leads to an increase in important susceptibility factors that weaken the barriers to pathogens. Read more about our research on tomato fruit susceptibility here! academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-ar…

Researchers from UC Davis have demonstrated how susceptibility factors that accumulate during the ripening process of tomatoes promote infection by fungal pathogens. Blanco Lab ow.ly/SfFC50DLj8S

Tune in tomorrow for the virtual Picnic Day and visit the Blanco Lab’s virtual exhibit “Storage Wars: The Battle of Fruit Freshness” to learn more about the fight against food waste! UCDavisPlants CA&ES, UC Davis UC Davis

Happy Picnic Day! Watch "Storage Wars: The Battle of Fruit Freshness" to learn how you can join the rebellion against food waste Picnic Day UCDavisPlants CA&ES, UC Davis youtube.com/watch?v=FVtJpH…

The Undergrad Research Conference is now live! Make sure to check out the excellent talk of our undergrad research assistant Benjamin Cohen Stillman. Register here! #URC2021 UC Davis URC UCDavisPlants CA&ES, UC Davis docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Make sure to check out the 10th annual Plant Sciences Symposium tomorrow! Our PhD student Jaclyn Adaskaveg, PhD will be giving a flash talk at 10:40 am about her work deciphering tomato development with tomato ripening mutants! UCDavisPlants CA&ES, UC Davis

We'd like to thank the Picnic Day committee for awarding our Star Wars themed video on preventing post harvest losses to pathogens 1st place in the Green Thumb Category🌱 Check it out now if you haven't done so yet! #MayTheFourthBeWithYou youtube.com/watch?v=FVtJpH…

The fruit of tomato ripening mutants Cnr, nor, and rin do not undergo the normal hallmarks of ripening. Read more about the physiological, molecular, and genetic impacts of the ripening mutations on fruit development BEYOND ripening here! doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2…

Blanco Lab 2021: Adrian Sbodio (SRA), Daphne Crum (UA), Nancy Yip (UA), Isabel Ortega-Salazar (Ph.D. St), Barbara Blanco-Ulate (PI), Jose G. Barquero-Jackson (VS), Jaclyn Adaskaveg (Ph.D. Cand.), Saskia Mesquida-Pesci (Ph.D. St), Dilasha Shenaz (UA), and Elia Gutierrez-Baeza (VS)

The Blanco Lab is proud to present Dr. Christian J. Silva, who just received his Ph.D. degree in Plant Biology! We were honored to be part of his successful academic career and wish him the best in his new professional and personal endeavors

Today is the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste. Around 1.3 billion tons of food are lost or wasted every year. At the Blanco Lab, we're fighting food loss by researching impactful postharvest fungi that result in spoilage of fruit commodities #FLWDay Food and Agriculture Organization

Panelists needed for Melon Consumer Study! If you like melons and are above 18 years of age, we're looking for you! Tasting will take place on Friday, Feb 25th, 2022, at the UCD RMI Sensory Theater from 10 am to 2:30 pm, in ~15 min sessions. Sign-up here! calendly.com/acantus-jlohrs…

We encourage everyone working on fruit/vegetable and fungal pathogen interactions to contribute their research to this special issue on Journal of Fungi! Submissions open until December 1st, 2022. Journal of Fungi MDPI

Come taste some melons tomorrow and support our research 🍈 Participants will get a $10 gift card! Sign up here: calendly.com/acantus-jlohrs…

You may have noticed we have had a lot of melon tastings! Here’s a look behind the scenes at what goes into our melon study. Firmness, juiciness, sugars, and volatiles, all get analyzed before the tasting at the sensory panel! UCDavisPlants CA&ES, UC Davis

Our paper in Plant Physiology is finally out! Did you know that a fungal pathogen (aka gray mold) can make tomatoes more susceptible by accelerating their ripening? Congrats to Christian, the Blanco Lab team, and our collaborators! UCDavisPlants CA&ES, UC Davis academic.oup.com/plphys/advance…

Have you checked our latest publication in Current Opinion in Biotechnology? Ph.D. candidate Jaclyn Adaskaveg, PhD wrote this review to discuss the potential of improving fruit quality and shelf-life by manipulating ripening regulators. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Our PhD student Jaclyn Adaskaveg, PhD attended ASTA’s Vegetable and Flower Seed Conference in Orlando, FL recently where she shared her work on tomato fruit quality. Check out her and other UCDavisPlants student’s experience in the article below: plantsciences.ucdavis.edu/news/students-…

Our grad students Jaclyn Adaskaveg, PhD (pictured below) and Yiduo Wei did a great job presenting their work on pistachio development at the ISHS 8th International Symposium on Almonds and Pistachios!