California disease
2.Cleaver of the University of California at San Francisco, for instance, has shown that people with the disease xeroderma pigmentosum, in which melanocytes are destroyed by exposure to the sun, suffer from significantly higher than normal rates of squamous and basal cell carcinomas, which are usually easily treated.
3.feeds on dusky-footed woodrat and bites humans; principal vector for Lyme disease in western United States especially northern California.
4.Based on the systematic investigation on almond industry of California, a series information and technique including the circumstances of introduction and cultivation, the economic value of almond, the main varieties, nursery stock growing, planting, pruning, shearing, pest and disease control, harvesting and processing were introduced. These information and technique can be adopted in the introduction and cultivation of almond in our country on a selective basis.

