• Latest
  • Trending

UF/IFAS researchers creating ‘Artificial Intelligence Connoisseur’

May 24, 2022
The Final Countdown: How Three Weeks of Strategic Nutrition Can Transform Your Carrot Harvest

The Final Countdown: How Three Weeks of Strategic Nutrition Can Transform Your Carrot Harvest

August 31, 2025
Mobilizing a Nation: Mongolia’s Unconventional Strategy to Secure Its Harvest

Mobilizing a Nation: Mongolia’s Unconventional Strategy to Secure Its Harvest

August 30, 2025
Cracking the Code: Understanding and Preventing Carrot Fractures for Optimal Yield

Cracking the Code: Understanding and Preventing Carrot Fractures for Optimal Yield

August 30, 2025
The August Mistake: Why Premature Harvest Robs Root Crops of Weight and Nutrients

The August Mistake: Why Premature Harvest Robs Root Crops of Weight and Nutrients

August 29, 2025
The Agronomic Edge: Capitalizing on the Broccoli, Carrot, and Pumpkin Wellness Boom

The Agronomic Edge: Capitalizing on the Broccoli, Carrot, and Pumpkin Wellness Boom

August 29, 2025
Beyond the Supplement Aisle: 8 Magnesium-Rich Vegetables to Power Your Health and Your Profits

Beyond the Supplement Aisle: 8 Magnesium-Rich Vegetables to Power Your Health and Your Profits

August 28, 2025
From 8 to 480 Hectares: The Kazakh Farm Pioneering ‘Healthy Eating’ Vegetables with Precision Irrigation

From 8 to 480 Hectares: The Kazakh Farm Pioneering ‘Healthy Eating’ Vegetables with Precision Irrigation

August 28, 2025
Tao Nguyen’s High-Tech Agri-Revolution: A Blueprint for Sustainable Highland Farming

Tao Nguyen’s High-Tech Agri-Revolution: A Blueprint for Sustainable Highland Farming

August 27, 2025
Kyrgyzstan Smashes Global Tomato Yield Record with 120 Tons/Ha Harvest

Kyrgyzstan Smashes Global Tomato Yield Record with 120 Tons/Ha Harvest

August 27, 2025
Israel’s Water Crisis Reaches Breaking Point: Agriculture Bears Brunt of Unprecedented Drought

Israel’s Water Crisis Reaches Breaking Point: Agriculture Bears Brunt of Unprecedented Drought

August 26, 2025
Kazakhstan’s Agri-Strategic Pivot: A Data-Driven Shift from Wheat to Value-Added Crops

Kazakhstan’s Agri-Strategic Pivot: A Data-Driven Shift from Wheat to Value-Added Crops

August 26, 2025
Pushing the Climate Envelope: Kaliningrad Farmer Targets 15-Ton Watermelon Harvest

Pushing the Climate Envelope: Kaliningrad Farmer Targets 15-Ton Watermelon Harvest

August 25, 2025
  • Company
Sunday, August 31, 2025
Vegetables News
  • NEWS
    The Final Countdown: How Three Weeks of Strategic Nutrition Can Transform Your Carrot Harvest

    The Final Countdown: How Three Weeks of Strategic Nutrition Can Transform Your Carrot Harvest

    Mobilizing a Nation: Mongolia’s Unconventional Strategy to Secure Its Harvest

    Mobilizing a Nation: Mongolia’s Unconventional Strategy to Secure Its Harvest

    Cracking the Code: Understanding and Preventing Carrot Fractures for Optimal Yield

    Cracking the Code: Understanding and Preventing Carrot Fractures for Optimal Yield

    The August Mistake: Why Premature Harvest Robs Root Crops of Weight and Nutrients

    The August Mistake: Why Premature Harvest Robs Root Crops of Weight and Nutrients

    The Agronomic Edge: Capitalizing on the Broccoli, Carrot, and Pumpkin Wellness Boom

    The Agronomic Edge: Capitalizing on the Broccoli, Carrot, and Pumpkin Wellness Boom

    Beyond the Supplement Aisle: 8 Magnesium-Rich Vegetables to Power Your Health and Your Profits

    Beyond the Supplement Aisle: 8 Magnesium-Rich Vegetables to Power Your Health and Your Profits

    From 8 to 480 Hectares: The Kazakh Farm Pioneering ‘Healthy Eating’ Vegetables with Precision Irrigation

    From 8 to 480 Hectares: The Kazakh Farm Pioneering ‘Healthy Eating’ Vegetables with Precision Irrigation

    Tao Nguyen’s High-Tech Agri-Revolution: A Blueprint for Sustainable Highland Farming

    Tao Nguyen’s High-Tech Agri-Revolution: A Blueprint for Sustainable Highland Farming

    Kyrgyzstan Smashes Global Tomato Yield Record with 120 Tons/Ha Harvest

    Kyrgyzstan Smashes Global Tomato Yield Record with 120 Tons/Ha Harvest

  • AGROTECHNOLOGY
    • All
    • Climate
    • Crop protection
    • digital (smart)
    • dron
    • Fertilizer
    • Research
    • weed
    Israel’s Water Crisis Reaches Breaking Point: Agriculture Bears Brunt of Unprecedented Drought

    Israel’s Water Crisis Reaches Breaking Point: Agriculture Bears Brunt of Unprecedented Drought

    Kazakhstan’s Agri-Strategic Pivot: A Data-Driven Shift from Wheat to Value-Added Crops

    Kazakhstan’s Agri-Strategic Pivot: A Data-Driven Shift from Wheat to Value-Added Crops

    Pushing the Climate Envelope: Kaliningrad Farmer Targets 15-Ton Watermelon Harvest

    Pushing the Climate Envelope: Kaliningrad Farmer Targets 15-Ton Watermelon Harvest

    Hungary’s Sour Cherry Crisis: Frost Decimates Harvest While Global Demand Soars

    Hungary’s Sour Cherry Crisis: Frost Decimates Harvest While Global Demand Soars

    Cabbage Compound Breaks Down Dental Plaque by 90% – A Game Changer for Oral Health and Agriculture

    Cabbage Compound Breaks Down Dental Plaque by 90% – A Game Changer for Oral Health and Agriculture

    Winter Warriors: The Cold-Hardy Vegetables That Defy Frozen Soil and Keep Growing

    Winter Warriors: The Cold-Hardy Vegetables That Defy Frozen Soil and Keep Growing

    Tula Region Showcases Agricultural Drones at ‘Future Technologies’ Forum: How UAVs Are Revolutionizing Farming

    Tula Region Showcases Agricultural Drones at ‘Future Technologies’ Forum: How UAVs Are Revolutionizing Farming

    Breaking Boundaries: Sakhalin Farmer Successfully Grows Watermelons in Russia’s Far North

    Breaking Boundaries: Sakhalin Farmer Successfully Grows Watermelons in Russia’s Far North

    Frost Wipes Out 95% of Kuban’s Blueberry Crop: A Cautionary Tale of Climate Risks

    Frost Wipes Out 95% of Kuban’s Blueberry Crop: A Cautionary Tale of Climate Risks

  • IRRIGATION
  • SEED PRODUCTION
    • Vegetables
    • Fruit
  • PROCESSING
No Result
View All Result
  • NEWS
    The Final Countdown: How Three Weeks of Strategic Nutrition Can Transform Your Carrot Harvest

    The Final Countdown: How Three Weeks of Strategic Nutrition Can Transform Your Carrot Harvest

    Mobilizing a Nation: Mongolia’s Unconventional Strategy to Secure Its Harvest

    Mobilizing a Nation: Mongolia’s Unconventional Strategy to Secure Its Harvest

    Cracking the Code: Understanding and Preventing Carrot Fractures for Optimal Yield

    Cracking the Code: Understanding and Preventing Carrot Fractures for Optimal Yield

    The August Mistake: Why Premature Harvest Robs Root Crops of Weight and Nutrients

    The August Mistake: Why Premature Harvest Robs Root Crops of Weight and Nutrients

    The Agronomic Edge: Capitalizing on the Broccoli, Carrot, and Pumpkin Wellness Boom

    The Agronomic Edge: Capitalizing on the Broccoli, Carrot, and Pumpkin Wellness Boom

    Beyond the Supplement Aisle: 8 Magnesium-Rich Vegetables to Power Your Health and Your Profits

    Beyond the Supplement Aisle: 8 Magnesium-Rich Vegetables to Power Your Health and Your Profits

    From 8 to 480 Hectares: The Kazakh Farm Pioneering ‘Healthy Eating’ Vegetables with Precision Irrigation

    From 8 to 480 Hectares: The Kazakh Farm Pioneering ‘Healthy Eating’ Vegetables with Precision Irrigation

    Tao Nguyen’s High-Tech Agri-Revolution: A Blueprint for Sustainable Highland Farming

    Tao Nguyen’s High-Tech Agri-Revolution: A Blueprint for Sustainable Highland Farming

    Kyrgyzstan Smashes Global Tomato Yield Record with 120 Tons/Ha Harvest

    Kyrgyzstan Smashes Global Tomato Yield Record with 120 Tons/Ha Harvest

  • AGROTECHNOLOGY
    • All
    • Climate
    • Crop protection
    • digital (smart)
    • dron
    • Fertilizer
    • Research
    • weed
    Israel’s Water Crisis Reaches Breaking Point: Agriculture Bears Brunt of Unprecedented Drought

    Israel’s Water Crisis Reaches Breaking Point: Agriculture Bears Brunt of Unprecedented Drought

    Kazakhstan’s Agri-Strategic Pivot: A Data-Driven Shift from Wheat to Value-Added Crops

    Kazakhstan’s Agri-Strategic Pivot: A Data-Driven Shift from Wheat to Value-Added Crops

    Pushing the Climate Envelope: Kaliningrad Farmer Targets 15-Ton Watermelon Harvest

    Pushing the Climate Envelope: Kaliningrad Farmer Targets 15-Ton Watermelon Harvest

    Hungary’s Sour Cherry Crisis: Frost Decimates Harvest While Global Demand Soars

    Hungary’s Sour Cherry Crisis: Frost Decimates Harvest While Global Demand Soars

    Cabbage Compound Breaks Down Dental Plaque by 90% – A Game Changer for Oral Health and Agriculture

    Cabbage Compound Breaks Down Dental Plaque by 90% – A Game Changer for Oral Health and Agriculture

    Winter Warriors: The Cold-Hardy Vegetables That Defy Frozen Soil and Keep Growing

    Winter Warriors: The Cold-Hardy Vegetables That Defy Frozen Soil and Keep Growing

    Tula Region Showcases Agricultural Drones at ‘Future Technologies’ Forum: How UAVs Are Revolutionizing Farming

    Tula Region Showcases Agricultural Drones at ‘Future Technologies’ Forum: How UAVs Are Revolutionizing Farming

    Breaking Boundaries: Sakhalin Farmer Successfully Grows Watermelons in Russia’s Far North

    Breaking Boundaries: Sakhalin Farmer Successfully Grows Watermelons in Russia’s Far North

    Frost Wipes Out 95% of Kuban’s Blueberry Crop: A Cautionary Tale of Climate Risks

    Frost Wipes Out 95% of Kuban’s Blueberry Crop: A Cautionary Tale of Climate Risks

  • IRRIGATION
  • SEED PRODUCTION
    • Vegetables
    • Fruit
  • PROCESSING
No Result
View All Result
Vegetables News
Home AGROTECHNOLOGY

UF/IFAS researchers creating ‘Artificial Intelligence Connoisseur’

by Tatyana Ivanovich
May 24, 2022
in AGROTECHNOLOGY
0

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.

University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) breeder and geneticist Marcio Resende wants to create what he calls an “Artificial Intelligence Connoisseur,” a model that tells researchers which chemical compounds – that is to say, volatiles, sugars, acids and other chemical compounds – produce the best fruit flavors.

To find out if a fruit or vegetable is worth breeding, scientists sample the crop for taste and smell themselves, going through fields and picking produce individually.

Marcio Resende, a UF/IFAS assistant professor of horticultural sciences, in his greenhouse on the main UF campus in Gainesville. In a new study, Resende and other UF/IFAS scientists used artificial intelligence to gather smell and taste data on tomatoes and blueberries.

These processes can present logistical issues, said Harry Klee, a UF/IFAS horticultural sciences professor and a co-author of a new study that looks at how computer models can use volatiles to measure fruit taste.

“Due to cost and logistical limitations, breeders do not typically employ consumer panels in their programs,” Klee said. “The ideal would be to use a large consumer panel that includes a diverse set of potential consumers. We use 100 people, spanning a range of age and ethnicity. This approach is much more representative of the population of shoppers.”

For years, plant breeders and geneticists helped farmers harvest higher yields because consumer-oriented traits such as flavor are harder to measure. However, high yields are not enough for producers to compete in nowadays demanding markets, said Patricio Muñoz, a UF/IFAS horticultural sciences associate professor in charge of the blueberry breeding program.

Producers know that if they do not include varieties that taste good, then their fruit might not sell for a good price or sell at all, said Muñoz. With these methods, scientists hope to help producers stay competitive and consumers have a better experience with their produce.

Using these models, a breeding program can assess flavor ratings for many fruit and vegetable varieties. This process was previously limited by the fact that neither scientists nor consumer panels can test very many varieties at once.

Resende led the new research that shows ways to get data from volatiles in blueberries and tomatoes into a statistical model. The research findings are now limited to those two fruits but will later be expanded to other crops UF/IFAS researchers develop.

To conduct their new study, UF/IFAS researchers used tomato and blueberry breeding program data from the past decade.

They gave a diverse set of tomato and blueberry varieties to consumer panels at the UF Sensory Lab in Gainesville. The scientists then collected ratings on flavor attributes such as “liking,” sweetness, sourness, flavor intensity and umami.

UF/IFAS researchers tested the range of scores that tell them how much a consumer likes a flavor. As it turns out, volatiles explained up to 56% of the “like” scores, which reinforces evidence that volatiles are important in determining how much consumers like the fruit. Volatiles are also important in quantifying and estimating the importance of fruit flavor, Resende said.

Furthermore, researchers showed that machine-learning approaches are generally the best predictors of consumer flavor preferences, called metabolomic selection. Accuracies of metabolic selection are superior to models that use genomic data instead, highlighting the potential of this new method in breeding applications.

“I think the main point is that breeders can screen a larger number of samples,” said Resende, a UF/IFAS assistant professor of horticultural sciences. “This way, you have a wider funnel to identify the good-tasting varieties, and at one point, taste-testing panels make a final selection with the sensory data. We expect that these models will enable an earlier incorporation of flavor as a breeding target and encourage selection and release of more flavorful fruit varieties.”

In addition to Resende, included among the other UF/IFAS faculty who investigated the computer model method of taste-testing were Klee, Muñoz and Denise Tieman, a research assistant professor — all three in the horticultural sciences department; Charlie Sims, a professor in food science and human nutrition and Nikolay Bliznyuk, an associate professor in agricultural and biological engineering. The work is also first-authored by Ph.D. student Vincent Colantonio and Research Assistant Scientist Luís Felipe Ferrão.

Click below for a video in which Resende explains this new AI research.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=qMooXVZsu08%3Ffeature%3Doembed%26enablejsapi%3D1

– Brad Buck, University of Florida

Tags: IFAS
Previous Post

Belarusian authorities curb onion, cabbage and apple exports

Next Post

Duncan Family Farms and Agbotic plan distributed SmartFarms

Next Post
Duncan Family Farms and Agbotic plan distributed SmartFarms

Duncan Family Farms and Agbotic plan distributed SmartFarms

  • Home
  • Privacy Policy
  • Privacy Policy of vegetables.news app

© 2020-2024 VEGETABLES NEWS

No Result
View All Result
  • NEWS
  • AGROTECHNOLOGY
  • IRRIGATION
  • SEED PRODUCTION
    • Vegetables
    • Fruit
  • PROCESSING

© 2020-2024 VEGETABLES NEWS