Credit: UF/IFAS photography
For the study, UF/IFAS plant pathology professor Natalia Peres (above, left) and her colleagues tested the Strawberry Advisory System on eight strawberry varieties at 39 commercial farms in Florida and South Carolina. They found the system saved an average of 50 percent of the fungicide growers normally would use without losing crop yield under different seasons, locations, cultivars, and nursery sources. Also in the photo is Clyde Fraisse, a UF/IFAS associate professor of agricultural and biological engineering, who helped develop the web tool.