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Clover Research Published on St. Pat's Day: Luck o' the Irish?
When evolutionary ecologist Marc Johnson, a professor of biology at the University of Toronto, Mississauga, and his team published their Global Urbanization Drives Adaptation in the Plant White Clover research today (March 17, St. Patrick's Day) in the journal Science, it...
Principal investigator (PI) Marc Johnson (far right) led the team with co-PI Rob Ness (far left), second author; and doctoral student James Santangelo (center), first author, all of the University of Toronto. The research was published in the journal Science on St. Patrick's Day (Johnson's birthday anniversary), with the official publication set March 18 (Ness' birthday anniversary).
The clover or shamrock symbolizes St. Patrick's Day, but this herbivore just considers it lunch. This image of a yellow-striped armyworm moth, Spodoptera ornithogalli, was taken in Louisiana. (Photo courtesy of Marc Johnson, University of Toronto)
Clover Root Curculio Found in Several Klamath Basin Alfalfa Fields
The warm weather this week is hopefully the best remedy for jump-starting many alfalfa fields damaged by frost and hail the last couple of weeks. If you have fields with frost damage that are not improving, you might dig some alfalfa plants and look at the roots. Recently we have multiple...