Agricultural and Life Sciences (IFAS)
Boyd Lab
Led by Nathan Boyd · Horticultural Sciences
What we study
Dr. Boyd's lab studies weed management in specialty crops like tomatoes, strawberries, and ornamentals, using AI, fumigation, herbicides, and cover crops. They develop targeted pest management tools and collaborate with growers and industry.
What working here is like
- Fieldwork
- Computational
- Plants
- Coding helps
- Projects
- 2
- Papers
- 5
Current projects
Development of AI-based targeted weed management technologies
Using AI to detect and map weeds in fallow fields, turf, strawberries, and tomatoes.
Fumigant systems for specialty crops
Testing fumigants and their effects on soil microbiome in specialty crops.
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Recent papers, explained
- Preemergence herbicides and postemergence glufosinate applications for green kyllinga ( Kyllinga brevifolia ) management
2026 · Weed Technology
Tests herbicide treatments to control a tough weed in Florida fields.
- Impact of purple nutsedge ( Cyperus rotundus ) density on detection accuracy of a YOLOv8 model
2026 · Weed Science
Tests how weed density affects AI weed-detection accuracy in greenhouses.
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- Improving Watermelon Disease Classification with Stable Diffusion-Generated Images and EfficientNetV2-L-Based Architecture
2026 · AgriEngineering
Checks if AI-generated watermelon images help train disease-detection models.
- Advancing site-specific disease and pest management in precision agriculture: From reasoning-driven foundation models to adaptive, feedback-based learning
2026 · Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
Tests how AI models can improve weed and pest management in farming.
- Proximal sensing pipeline for field-scale mapping of individual weeds using low-cost components and YOLO object detection
2026 · Smart Agricultural Technology
Builds a system to map weeds using cameras, AI, and GPS in fields.
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How to reach out
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