UC Davis Launches Olive Research Center

By LAURA KURTZMAN, Associated Press Writer

Dan Flynn, executive director of the University of California, Davis, Olive Center, pours olive oil into a sampling glass at the Davis, Calif. campus, Thursday, March 6, 2008. The newly created olive institute will be a resource to delve into essential questions about olive production and consumption. California growers produce about a half million gallons of olive oil each year, with production to increase fivefold in the next five years.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

(AP) -- After the repeal of Prohibition in 1933, the University of California, Davis established a research department that led to the flourish of the California wine industry. Now, it hopes to do the same for olive oil.

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