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Study: Where bison roam could spread microbes


June 21, 2023

A new study from University of Florida and Kansas State University researchers found that bison carry plant-associated fungi in their saliva, with the potential to spread fungi across the prairie. The study raises questions about ... READ MORE

Category: NATURAL RESOURCES, UF/IFAS Research, Wildlife
Tags: Bison, Department Of Plant Pathology, Emerging Pathogens Institute, Fungi, Karen Garrett, Microbes, Microbiome, Pathogen, Plant Pathology

Forum tackles how AI can help deal with global food security


March 13, 2023

With the world’s population predicted to hover around 9.8 billion by 2050, artificial intelligence could help feed people across the globe now and in the future. That makes artificial intelligence (AI) an ideal topic for the third annual Future ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS
Tags: Adegbola Adesogan, Agricultultural And Biological Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Charlie Li, Crops, Diseases, Future Of Food Forum, Harvest, HiPerGator, J. Scott Angle, Karen Garrett, Microbiology And Cell Science, Microcell, Plant Pathology, Raquel Dias, Supply Chain

Decision-support tool using HiPerGator may help manage devastating avocado disease


November 18, 2020

UF/IFAS researchers are working on a decision-support app to help policy makers and growers decide the best regional treatment options for laurel wilt disease, which is challenging Florida’s $35 million-a-year avocado crop. Laurel wilt ... READ MORE

Category: AGRICULTURE, Pests & Disease, SFYL Hot Topic
Tags: Avocado, Decision-support Tool, Disease, Disease Transmission, HiPerGator, Horticultural Sciences, Jonathan Crane, Karen Garrett, Laurel Wilt, Plant Pathology, Redbay Ambrosia Beetle, Tropical Research And Education Center

Celebrating avocados July 31st? UF/IFAS researchers making great strides on saving the Florida avocado industry


July 27, 2020

HOMESTEAD, Fla. – As consumers commemorate National Avocado Day on July 31st, UF/IFAS scientists keep a steady pace of lab and field work for the Florida avocado industry as they fight laurel wilt. Detected in Georgia in 2002, laurel wilt’s ... READ MORE

Category: Crops, Pests & Disease, SFYL Hot Topic, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Bruce Schaffer, Jeffrey Rollins, Jonathan Crane, Karen Garrett, TREC, Tropical Research And Education Center, UF/IFAS Tropical Research And Education Center

Three UF/IFAS Faculty Members Elected 2019 AAAS Fellows, Largest Number Yet


November 26, 2019

Three faculty members with the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences have been elected 2019 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society, according ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS Research
Tags: AAAS, AAAS Fellows, Agricultural And Biological Engineering, Karen Garrett, Microbiology And Cell Science, Microcell, Plant Pathology, Senthold Asseng, Wayne Nicholson

UF Scientist: Florida Crop Surveillance Network Offers State-Level Example of Proposed Global System


July 9, 2019

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Growing agricultural production demands and new disease threats will necessitate a global surveillance system for crop diseases, according to a new article in the journal Science. But one of the co-authors from the University ... READ MORE

Category: AGRICULTURE, Crops, Food Safety, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Agricultural Industry, Disease, Disease Transmission, Karen Garrett, Plant Pathology

UF Researchers Develop Model to Help Keep Crop Seeds Healthy


March 11, 2019

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Working with international researchers, University of Florida scientists have developed a model that will help protect good seeds, which are necessary to plant healthy crops and determine what areas are at higher risk for ... READ MORE

Category: AGRICULTURE, Crops
Tags: Department Of Plant Pathology, Healthy Seeds, Institute For Sustainable Food Systems, Karen Garrett, Kelsey Andersen, Seed Systems, Sweet Potatoes, Uganda