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Podcast: Africa Tech Radio
Episode: Digital Space - Estimate App with Dr. Kolade
Description: In this episode of Digital Spaces by Radio IITA, Dr. Olufisayo Kolade explores the Estimate App, a mobile innovation transforming how yam anthracnose disease (YAD) is studied and managed.
The Estimate App, available on Android and iOS, is a phenotyping tool designed to quantify the severity of anthracnose symptoms on yam leaves, enabling researchers, breeders, and field practitioners to collect standardized data and export it for further analysis. Developed and published by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), the app supports both field and laboratory phenotyping, with the goal of accelerating the selection of yam clones...