A new tool for precision agriculture 4.0 is born from the research against cancer: it is the Mowi digital platform, which uses smart sensors and artificial intelligence to predict the risk of fungal infection in vine plants, thus allowing to reduce the use of chemical treatments to safeguard the production and quality of wine with a view to sustainability. The project, born at the State University of Milan, is among the five winners of a grant as part of the Seed4Innovation scouting program, promoted by the UNIMI Foundation in collaboration with the Innovation and Knowledge Enhancement Department of the University of Milan for identify innovation projects within the academic community.
The Mowi platform, which translates the precision medicine skills of the Oncolab research group into agriculture, is conceived and coordinated by Caterina La Porta, professor of the State University and CEO of Complexdata, an innovative start-up and spin-off of UniMI. The project sees the interdisciplinary involvement of Stefano Zapperi, Stefano Gomarrasca, Stefano Bocchi, Paolo Boldi, Luigi Orsi, Franco Faoro of the University of Milan and the collaborators of the Oncolab research group Maria Chiara Lionetti and Maria Rita Fumagalli and in collaboration with Prof. Maurizio David Baroni of the University of Padua.
