Recently, the Yoder Lab has been thinking a lot about the conditions plant populations need to flower and produce fruit — that is, to reproduce and create the next generation. We hit on the idea of using images from iNaturalist records of Joshua trees (Yucca brevifolia and Y. jaegeriana) to train machine-learning models relating flowering…
Multiple Yoder Lab members celebrated graduations and accomplishments at the end of the 2024-2025 school year. Master’s student Pryce Millikin walked in last Friday’s commencement ahead of his planned dissertation defense in July, and undergrad researcher Daniel Dakduk collected his diploma after finishing classes at the end of the fall semester. A couple weeks earlier,…
More than a century ago, in mid-June 1924, the Los Angeles Times devoted a photo spread and several column inches to the second-hand vacation story of some “Cadillac tourists” who saw Joshua trees bearing fruit. It meant, the Times reported, that rain was coming. M.C. Ellison of Sacramento, who has been touring Southern California in…
