The following are research articles, news stories and editorials appearing in California Agriculture, Volume 52, Numbers 1 through 6, January through December 1998. Titles preceded by an asterisk are sidebars.

Research Articles

ECONOMICS AND PUBLIC POLICY
Conflicts arise on the urban fringe — Handel May-Jun p11
*Rural dwellers divided on how to head off urbanization — Handel, Sokolow May-Jun p14
Méthod champenoise sparkling pear wine costs most, but offers highest quality — McGourty, Butzke Nov-Dec p37
Feasibility of producing pear wine . . . Pears produce premium sparkling wine — McGourty, Butzke Nov-Dec p31
Land trusts conserve California farmland — Vink May-Jun p27
North Bay leads Central Valley in protecting farmland — Sokolow May-Jun p17
Permissive growth policies may encourage speculative investment in farmland — Moore May-Jun p23
SPECIAL SECTION: Biotechnology
Public germplasm development at a crossroads: Biotechnology and intellectual property — Wright Nov–Dec p8
Perspective
Statewide farmland protection is fragmented, limited — Sanders May-Jun p5
*Urban growth squeezes agriculture — Medvitz May-Jun p8

FOOD AND NUTRITION
Latinos improve food habits through nutrition education — Kaiser et al. Jul-Aug p32

HUMAN AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Media campaigns promote driver safety for farmworkers — Grieshop et al. Jan-Feb p11

LAND, AIR AND WATER SCIENCES
Cracks affect infiltration of furrow crop irrigation — Hanson, Fulton, Goldhamer
Mar-Apr p38
Earlier irrigation cutoff for sugarbeets conserves water — Kaffka, Peterson, Kirby Jan-Feb p21
Innovative strategies reduce selenium in Grasslands drainage — Quinn, McGahan, Delamore Sep-Oct p12
New crop coefficients estimate water use of vegetables, row crops — Grattan et al. Jan-Feb p16
Subsurface drainage systems have little impact on water tables, salinity of clay soils — Grismer, Bali Sep-Oct p18
Though difficult to achieve, revegetation is best way to stabilize soil — Grantz et al. Jul-Aug p8
Water turbulence disrupts accuracy of some flow meters — Hanson, Schwankl
Jan-Feb p25
Wind barriers offer short-term solution to fugitive dust — Grantz et al. Jul-Aug p14

NATURAL RESOURCES
Biological control of the blue gum psyllid proves economically beneficial — Dahlsten et al. Jan-Feb p35

PEST MANAGEMENT
Bats feed on crop pests in Sacramento Valley — Long et al. Jan-Feb p8
Beneficial insects move from flowering plants to nearby crops — Long et al. Sep-Oct p23
SPECIAL SECTION: Biotechnology
Transgenic Bt crops and resistance...Broadscale use of pest-killing plants to be true test — Federici
Nov-Dec p14
Can cover crops reduce vine vigor, leafhopper abundance in vineyards? — Daane, Costello Sep-Oct p27
Celery petiole lesion damage caused by insecticide — Koike et al. Jul-Aug p36
Fungal pathogen controls thrips in greenhouse flowers — Murphy et al. May-June p32
¤Grape growers report losses to black-foot and grapevine decline — Scheck et al. Jul-Aug p.19
Insect-transmitted viruses threaten agriculture — Gilbertson et al. Mar-Apr p23
*CCPP: preventive medicine for citrus — Gumpf Mar-Apr p27
Invasion biology: Rethinking our response to alien species — Venette, Carey Mar-Apr p13
IPM helps control elm leaf beetle — Dahlsten et al. Mar-Apr p18
Modified bait tube controls disease-carrying ticks and fleas — Lane et al. Mar-Apr p43
*Lyme disease basics — Mar-Apr p43
Native gray ant has beneficial role in peach orchards — Daane, Dlott Nov-Dec p25
Parasitoid wasp controls blue gum psyllid — Dahlsten et al. Jan-Feb p31
Persistent silverleaf whitefly exploits desert crop systems — Toscano et al. Mar-Apr p29
Pest management record-keeping duties shift with computerization — Flint et al. Jul-Aug p27
Ravenous Formosan subterranean termites persist in California — Rust et al. Mar-Apr p34
Success of mite-fighting tactics evaluated — Karban, Zalom Nov-Dec p21
Varroa mite impacts Africanized bee spread and beekeeping — Page Mar-Apr p9

PLANT SCIENCES
¤Curly top virus found in perennial shrubs in foothills — Davis et al. Sep-Oct p38
Legumes show success on Central Coast rangeland — Weitkamp, Graves May-June p37
Pyrithiobac sodium controls nightshade without long-term effect on cotton — Vargas et al. Sep-Oct p34
Verticillium survives heat in Mojave Desert alfalfa — Erwin, Howell Jul-Aug p24

News departments

Outreach news
“City Bugs” website turns teens into taxonomists — Jan-Feb p4
UC trains welfare recipients — Jan-Feb p5

Research update
Bats can pack a punch in pest control — Jan-Feb p6
Center for Exotic Pest Research tackles controversy — Mar-Apr p5
Growers strive to reduce selenium discharges — Sep-Oct p10
Introduction: Exotic pests — Mar-Apr p5
Lizards slay Lyme disease spirochetes — Mar-Apr p4
Scientists score dustbusting efforts in Antelope Valley — Jul-Aug p6
Scientists see spike in Africanized bee numbers — Mar-Apr p7
Silverleaf whitefly extends range — Mar-Apr p6
Summer boating main source of lake’s MTBE — Jul-Aug p7
UC contributes biotech breakthroughs — Nov-Dec p6

Science briefs
Bison disease still threatens cattle — Jan-Feb p6
Change in law allows transgenic cotton — Nov-Dec p5
50 Years: Veterinary Medicine — Sep-Oct p6
Imported fire ant elicits tempered concern — Sep-Oct p5
Insect quarantine facility breaks ground — Jul-Aug p5
New phylloxera may threaten nurseries — Nov-Dec p4
NRS receives $4 million — Jul-Aug p5
Plants detoxify chromium — Sep-Oct p5
Rust disease shrinks garlic crop — Jul-Aug p4
Scientists look at kids’ pesticide exposure — Sep-Oct p5
UC, COS, high school to build dairy — Nov-Dec p4

Editorials
Times and programs change, but Division carries on tradition of public service — Gomes Jan-Feb
New facilities to foster solutions for exotic pests — Gomes Mar-Apr
Steering a course to farmland protection — Sokolow May-Jun
Potpourri: New strategies, funding, partnerships — Gomes Jul-Aug
Veterinary medicine: Mandates and missions for the 21st century — Osburn Sep-Oct
Biotechnology: New benefits, new questions — Qualset, Webster Nov-Dec
*Sidebars.
¤New pests and plant diseases articles

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