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Educational Content

• Fig Education, reviewed by UC Specialists and Farm Advisors

  • Content includes: propagation, pollination, fruit set and flower and fruit development, variety selection, pests, and orchard management.

including Basic Crop Information

• Fig Education, reviewed by UC Specialists and Farm Advisors

  • Content includes: propagation, pollination, fruit set and flower and fruit development, variety selection, pests, and orchard management.

General Sources

• Figs: An Old California Industry in Transition

  • A video of this presentation by Louise Ferguson, UCCE Specialist, Dept. of Plant Sciences, UC Davis, at the ASHS Annual Conference 2013

Newsletters & Blogs: Farm Advisors - Current Topics

• Tree and Vine Newsletter - Merced County

  • Newsletter from David Doll and Maxwell Norton, Farm Advisors, Merced County. Topics in tree crop production, including farm safety, irrigation, pest management.

• Topics in Subropics - Blog

  • A collaborative blog by UC Farm Advisors and Specialists in subtropical horticulture in California.

non-University of California Resources

• Fig Fruit Facts

  • California Rare Fruit Growers

• Texas Plant Disease Handbook: Fig

  • Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Texas A&M University

• Figs profile

  • Ag. Marketing and Resource Center

• Mediterranean Fruits: Olive, Mandarin, Fig, Persimmon, Pomegranate, Pistachio, Loquat

  • Joan Tous and Louise Ferguson. In: J. Janick (ed.), Progress in new crops. ASHS Press, Arlington, VA. 1996

• Fig (Ficus carica L.)

  • Center for New Crops and Plants Products, Purdue University

• Figs

  • G. McEachern, Texas A & M Univ.

• Crop Profile for Figs in California (pdf)

  • National Science Foundation Center for IPM. 2003 (10 pp.)

• Fig

  • T. E. Crocker, University of Florida IFAS Extension

Organizations

• California Rare Fruit Growers

  • Fullerton, CA

• California Fresh Fig Growers Association

  • Fresno, CA

• California Fig Advisory Board

  • Fresno, CA

Production Management

• Fig Fact Sheet

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• UC IPM Pest Management Guidelines: Fig

  • UC IPM Online

• Fig Day 2006: Etiology and Management of Limb Dieback of Figs in California (PowerPoint to pdf)

  • Themis J. Michailides, D. P. Morgan, D. Felts, H. Reyes, UC Kearney Agricultural Center. 43-slide presentation

• Fig Day 2006: Fig Mosaic (PowerPoint to pdf)

  • Bryce Falk and Nida Salem, Dept. of Plant Pathology, UC Davis.13-slide presentation)

• Fig Day 2006: Phenology of the Fig Tree (PowerPoint to pdf)

  • Maxwell Norton and Dan Rivers, UCCE Merced Co. 7-slide presentation

• Recommendations for Maintaining Postharvest Quality: Fig

  • Carlos H. Crisosto, Elizabeth J. Mitcham and Adel A. Kader Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis

• Fig Day 2006: Screening Diverse Fig Cultivars for Commercial Potential (PowerPoint to pdf)

  • Ed Stover, Carlos Crisosto, Malli Aradhya, Louise Ferguson, UC Davis. 21-slide presentation

• Fig Day 2006: Monitoring, Sanitation, and Insect Pest Management in Figs (PowerPoint to pdf)

  • Chuck Burks, David Brandl, UC Kerney Agricultural Center, Themis Michailides and Mark Doster, USDA-ARS, Parlier, CA. 21-slide presentation

• Fig Varieties: A Monograph (pdf)

  • Definitive work on fig varieties by Ira Condit, UC ANR publication: Hilgardia, 1955 (247 pp.)

• Limb Dieback of Figs

  • Summary of research program at Kearney Agricultural Center