California
Fruit Fly Offers Lessons in Good Taste
What can the fruit fly teach us about taste and how chemicals cause our taste buds to recognize sweet, sour, bitter, umami, and salty tastes?
Delicious and Disease-free: Scientists Attempting New Citrus Varieties
University of California Riverside (UCR) scientists are betting an ancient solution will solve citrus growers’ biggest problem by breeding new fruits with natural resistance to a deadly tree disease.