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LAURELS: Catching Up With the Department of Plant Sciences

Belated recognition for faculty of the Department of Plant Sciences, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences:

  • Fredrick Bliss (emeritus), , National Association of Plant Breeders, 2020
  • Paul Gepts, , Crop Science Society of America, 2020
  • Patrick H. Brown, , Soil Science Society of America, 2021; and , International Fertilizer Association, 2022
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    Jennifer Funk, , Department of Plant Sciences (the award is named after the first woman to join the faculty of the Department of Agronomy, now part of the Department of Plant Sciences), 2021
  • Troy Magney, , American Society of Plant Biologists, 2021
  • E. Charles Brummer, , North American Alfalfa Improvement Conference, 2022
  • Louise Ferguson, , Department of Plant Sciences, 2022
  • Paul Smith (emeritus), International Pepper Conference, 2022
  • Jorge Dubcovsky and lab, , Crop Science Society of America, 2023
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Jeffrey P. Mitchell, professor of Cooperative Extension, leads and helped start the CASI Center, which promotes conservation tillage practices in California.

... and one for the Conservation Agriculture Systems Innovation (CASI) Center, recipient of the from the Soil and Water Conservation Society, 2022.


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