Testimonials
What our clients say
Improved Business
We started using Dr. Crisosto’s preconditioning research in 1996, which helped immensely with taste, and our first commercial shipments went out in 1997. And, today, that customer that received the first shipment is still one of our biggest customers. Actually, they have gone from 80 stores to 300 stores, so it has been a nice and steady, consistent ride. Mike Thurlow, Owner and Sales Manager at Mountain View Fruit Sales
Revolutionary
With Dr. Crisosto’s excellent postharvest physiology research, and supported by his ability to explain the science, through written protocol and in-person teaching, together we changed the way our products were delivered. Shippers were able to command an upcharge for enhanced quality, retailers enjoyed increased sales, and consumers bought more fruit with confidence. David S. Parker, Former CA Tree Fruit Agreement Promotion Director
Industry Leader
Dr. Crisosto has been a leader in postharvest physiology and application, cooperated with many growers, farm advisors, shippers, pest control advisers, and other researchers and specialists, and that is why industry representatives ask always for his advice on how to produce fruit to please consumers by increasing fruit quality and solve any problems in fruit and nut production. Themis J. Michailides, AES Plant Pathologist at UC Davis
Impactful
Dr. Crisosto's research is impactful, timely, diverse and highly-collaborative. He is probably one of the most active and influential CE Specialist's in history, as his research is always evolving and solving industry problems. I believe his development and widespread industry deployment of the Consumer Quality Concept is one of his main feats. Selina Wang, Research Director at UC Davis Olive Center
Objective
For Carlos, it is about the importance of maintaining his integrity, objectivity, and excellence in the work he generates every day. Carlos has been extremely successful domestically and globally because growers and fellow researchers know the integrity of his work and the intensity, humility, and passion he places on the research he undertakes. Curt Granger, Former Marketing Director at the CA Kiwifruit Commission
Consumer-Minded
By combining both grower education (with his 'Preconditioning' protocol, which dramatically decreases chilling injury in peaches and nectarines) with improved consumer awareness, he positively impacted the industry by helping launch the current peach marketing standard of wide accessibility combined with good eating quality. Thomas M. Gradziel, Professor of Pomology at UC Davis
In the Press
Peach book guides growing quality fruit from planting...
“This will still be the definitive text for probably the next 20 years,” said Carlos Crisosto, who is one of the book's editors and authors. He is both a distinguished professor in the UC Davis Department of Plant Sciences and UC Cooperative Extension specialist in consumer quality and postharvest technology in UC Agriculture and Natural Resources. (Click here to read the entire article.) uc anr food blog