Geneticist Tom Gradziel at UC Davis spends his days immersed in that changing world.
It s a bit like the flowing river. In fact, the adage is: “Nothing stays the same, save eternal change.”
And while that wisdom about constant change wasn t written with the California almond industry in mind, it is apropos to that segment of the tree nut industry with so many variables that are constantly in flux.
Geneticist Tom Gradziel at the University of California, Davis, spends his days immersed in that changing world, tending to 20,000 seedling trees in a dozen test plots up and down the state.