Tag: Patricio Munoz

Florida blueberry season: Top-notch fruit, tools and knowledge from UF/IFAS research

by Brad Buck
March 30, 2022

March brings the start of Florida’s blueberry production, harvest and shipping season. The state’s blueberry industry has grown rapidly in the past 20 years. Today, Florida farmers grow more than 5,200 acres of blueberries, producing about ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS
Tags: 'Arcadia', 'Sentinel', Blueberries, Blueberry Growers Guide App, Blueberry Season, Breeding, Cultivars, Doug Phillips, Horticultural Sciences, Patricio Munoz, Production

UF/IFAS researchers creating an ‘Artificial Intelligence Connoisseur’

by Brad Buck
February 7, 2022

Can a computer “taste” a tomato or a blueberry? Well, not exactly, but it can tell scientists which volatiles in these fruits make them taste good, say University of Florida researchers. UF/IFAS breeder and geneticist Marcio Resende wants ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Health & Nutrition, UF/IFAS
Tags: #AI, #aiatuf, Artificial Intelligence, Blueberries, Harry Klee, Horticultural Sciences, Marcio Resende, Patricio Munoz, Smell, Taste, Taste Panels, Tomatoes, UF Sensory Lab

UF/IFAS develops blueberry cultivar selection tool for Florida growers

by Brad Buck
May 25, 2021

As growers wind down this year’s Florida blueberry season, they can look to a new UF/IFAS tool to help them decide whether to remove any existing blueberry cultivars and/or plant new ones. The UF/IFAS blueberry breeding program has developed ... READ MORE

Category: Agribusiness, Agriculture
Tags: App, Blueberries, Cultivar, Disease, Doug Phillips, Gulf Coast Research And Education Center, Horticultural Sciences, Machine Harvesting, Module, Patricio Munoz, Pests, Resistance

With beginning of Florida blueberry season comes new UF/IFAS variety

by Brad Buck
March 30, 2021

As April starts this week, we’re getting into another Florida blueberry season and the sweet taste that comes with the fruit. You can pick them yourself or buy them from the store. Recently, the University of Florida developed and released ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture
Tags: 'Sentinel', Alto Straughn, Blueberries, Blueberry Season, Breeding, Cultivar, Horticultural Sciences, Patricio Munoz, Research, Taste, Usda

UF/IFAS-developed blueberry app to help growers battle diseases and pests

by Brad Buck
December 9, 2020

A new University of Florida app will help the state’s blueberry growers identify and manage disease and insect injuries commonly encountered in Florida before their crop is ruined. Collectively, blueberries are a $60 million-per-year crop ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Pests & Disease, SFYL Hot Topic
Tags: App, Blueberries, Disease, Doug Phillips, Gulf Coast Research And Education Center, Horticultural Sciences, Jeff Williamson, Nutrients, Oscar Liburd, Patricio Munoz, Pests, Peter Dittmar, Phil Harmon, UF/IFAS Blueberry Growers Guide

Sensory lab helps UF/IFAS breeders know which fruits, veggies taste, smell best

by Brad Buck
October 29, 2020

Not long ago, about 200 consumer panelists went to the University of Florida Sensory Testing Lab to taste a new blueberry developed by UF/IFAS scientists. Turns out, they liked the flavor of the ‘Sentinel’ blueberry, said its breeder, Patricio ... READ MORE

Category: SFYL Hot Topic, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Charles Sims, Food, Food Science And Human Nutrition, Fruit, Patricio Munoz, Smell, Taste, Testing, UF Sensory Lab

New blueberry variety honors benefactor and UF alumnus Alto Straughn

by Brad Buck
October 29, 2020

When Patricio Muñoz developed the University of Florida’s newest blueberry variety, he wanted to name the fruit in honor of Alto Straughn, a longtime, strong supporter of UF’s blueberry breeding program. “A ‘sentinel’ is a watcher ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Crops, SFYL Hot Topic
Tags: 'Sentinel', Alto Straughn, Blueberry, Cultivar, Horticultural Sciences, Market, Patricio Munoz, Smell, Taste

In COVID-19 era, UF/IFAS research adapts

by Kirsten Romaguera Rabin
May 28, 2020

As Florida moved to “safer at home” measures, not all work could be put on pause. When it came to University of Florida research, many UF/IFAS projects could not wait. There are living plants, animals and insects to feed and maintain; ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Health & Nutrition, NATURAL RESOURCES, SFYL Hot Topic, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Blueberry, Blueberry Breeding Program, Chelsea Smartt, Citrus Research, Citrus Research And Education Center, Dail Laughinghouse, Damian Adams, Department Of Wildlife Ecology And Conservation, Endangered Species, Florida Agricultural Experiment Station, Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, Harmful Algal Blooms, Hemp Research, Horticultural Sciences, Larry Duncan, Maria Silveira, Mosquitoes, Nematology, Patricio Munoz, Range Cattle Research And Education Center, Research, Robert Fletcher, Robert Gilbert, Snail Kite, Toxic Algae, UF IFAS Fort Lauderdale Research And Education Center, UF/IFAS Tropical Research And Education Center, Water Quality, Zachary Brym

Featured UF/IFAS Cultivars Released in 2019 Include Fruits, Oat and Zoysiagrass

by Brad Buck
December 17, 2019

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Category: Agriculture, Horticulture, Turf
Tags: Agriculture, Agronomy, Ali Babar, Blueberry, Breeding, Citrus, Cultivars, Florida Foundation Seed Producers, Horticultural Sciences, Jude Grosser, Kevin Kenworthy, Oat, Patricio Munoz, Plants, Sam Hutton, Tomato, Zoysiagrass

Two UF Scientists Part of $12.8 Million Blueberry Breeding Grant

by Brad Buck
December 16, 2019

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- A plant breeder and a food scientist, both with the University of Florida, will join a $12.8 million, multistate research grant to broaden the nation’s blueberry breeding capabilities. For the project, Patricio Muñoz, ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Crops
Tags: Blueberry, Charles Sims, Cultivar, Food Science And Human Nutrition, Grant, Horticultural Sciences, Patricio Munoz

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