Chuck Ingels Pomology, Viticulture, Environmental Horticulture, and Master Gardener Advisor Tel: (916) 875-6913 / Fax: (916) 875-6233 / E-mail: caingels@ucdavis.edu.  Priority areas in production agriculture include pest management in Bartlett pears; pest management, rootstocks, and cover cropping in wine grapes; and spider mite management in strawberries. Environmental horticulture programs include water efficient landscaping, roadside native grass restoration, tree care, and pest management. The Fair Oaks Horticulture Center is designed to teach the public and landscape professionals how to create edible and water efficient landscapes.

Janet C. "Jenny" Broome, Ph.D., Area Plant Pathologist, Phone: 916-875-6421, cell phone 530-681-0216, Email: jcbroome@ucdavis.edu, FAX: (916) 875-6233.  Cooperate with Sacramento, Yolo and Solano farm advisors and campus academics to provide plant disease diagnosis and management information on area crops.  Develop cooperative research and education programs for pears, wine grapes, nursery industry, vegetable and field crops in the Southern Sacramento Valley.  Areas of expertise include epidemiology and cultural and biological control of fungal and bacterial diseases of fruit crops.  Provide organic producers with research based disease management options.