Author name: Sofia Martinezi

In my work advising growers and consulting on plant health, few topics spark as much immediate debate in the field as neonicotinoid active compounds. From a pure plant protection standpoint, their systemic nature is remarkably clever: seed treatments or soil drenches allow the active ingredient to be drawn up directly through the plant’s vascular system, […]

When I was finishing up my graduate studies in plant science at UC Davis, my time was split between two entirely different worlds. Half my week was spent running complex computational models and analyzing precision agriculture data under the sterile fluorescent lights of a laboratory. The other half was spent with my boots caked in