UC Davis researchers in the Department of Plant Sciences have laid the foundation for understanding the genes that control the ripening process in plums. Po-Kai Huang, a postdoctoral scholar, ...

As summer goes by there's a pageant of plums in the markets. Green plums, black ones, red ones: sweet, succulent fruit giving forth nectar for warm weather refreshment. Bringing up the rear are ...

Growing your own fruit is always a treat. While there are many plum varieties you can grow in your own yard, this one ...

You buy a plum, plant the pit, and have a lifetime supply of free plums -- that's the dream at least. Discover why experts ...

The early varieties here have been yellow and red rather than the more familiar purple color that people associate with plums. Production of fresh plums has also plummeted because an increasing share ...

Name a fruit that grows on trees in backyards across the region. Chances are you said apple, which is the most common tree fruit in the Upper Midwest. While apples enjoy the limelight, plums are often ...

While fruit trees generally take a lot of time before they produce, you can easily start the process by turning a single plum pit into a seedling.

Split screen of two plum tomato types - Static Media / Shutterstock / Getty Growing up with a British mother, there were always jokes between the pronunciation of tomAtoes versus to tomAHtoes. In the ...

While meandering through the farmers' market, I couldn't help but see the shiny, dark little plums that were scattered among the other stone fruit. While I've never been a huge fan of the tart fruit, ...