{"id":35313,"date":"2024-08-20T11:09:12","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T15:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/newengineer\/?p=35313"},"modified":"2025-06-11T12:26:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T17:26:56","slug":"uf-scientists-use-ai-algorithm-to-improve-strawberry-disease-detection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/department-of-agricultural-and-biological-engineering\/uf-scientists-use-ai-algorithm-to-improve-strawberry-disease-detection\/","title":{"rendered":"UF scientists use AI algorithm to improve strawberry disease detection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Florida\u2019s strawberry season doesn\u2019t return until December. But University of Florida scientists work year-round to support an industry with a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ifas.ufl.edu\/news\/2024\/01\/18\/peak-strawberry-season-means-more-florida-grown-flavorful-fruit-at-the-market\/\">$500 million-a-year farm-gate value in Florida<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among their research endeavors, UF\/IFAS scientists search for ways to help growers control diseases that can damage strawberries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of Florida\u2019s 13,500 acres of strawberries grow in Hillsborough, Polk and Manatee counties. For over a decade, Florida farmers have used the UF\/IFAS-designed <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ifas.ufl.edu\/news\/2014\/10\/08\/ufifas-created-strawberry-monitoring-system-set-to-expand\/\">Strawberry Advisory System<\/a> (SAS) to tell them when to spray fungicides to prevent plant diseases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SAS works with data generated by <a href=\"https:\/\/fawn.ifas.ufl.edu\/\">Florida Automated Weather Network<\/a> stations near farms \u2013 in this case, near strawberry fields. SAS uses leaf wetness duration to help growers estimate the risk of their fruit getting infected with a fungal disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/1424-8220\/24\/15\/4836\">newly published research<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/abe.ufl.edu\/people\/faculty\/wonsuk-lee\/\">Won Suk \u201cDaniel\u201d Lee, a professor of agricultural and biological engineering<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/gcrec.ifas.ufl.edu\/gcrec-facultystaff-directory\/natalia-peres\/\">Natalia Peres, a professor of plant pathology<\/a>, show how artificial intelligence (AI) can improve leaf wetness detection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ifas.ufl.edu\/news\/2024\/08\/15\/uf-scientists-use-ai-algorithm-to-improve-strawberry-disease-detection\/\">Read full story on UF IFAS Blogs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In newly published research, Won Suk \u201cDaniel\u201d Lee, a professor of agricultural and biological engineering and Natalia Peres, a professor of plant pathology, show how artificial intelligence (AI) can improve leaf wetness detection to help growers estimate the risk of their fruit getting infected with a fungal disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2592,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-templates\/single-sidebar-none.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9,61,57],"tags":[399],"class_list":["post-35313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-department-of-agricultural-and-biological-engineering","category-research-innovation","category-stories","tag-wonsuk-daniel-lee"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2592"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37415,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35313\/revisions\/37415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}