1. Submitting DDIS Samples Amanda Hodges, Ph.D. and Jiannong Xin, Ph.D. University of Florida/IFAS Extension

2. http://solutionsforyourlife.ufl.edu/ University of Florida-Cooperative Extension Service

3. County Agents-First Detector Educators

4. Information on Submitting Good Digital Images Information available on DDIS http://ddis.ifas.ufl.edu/ http://ddis.ifas.ufl.edu/ Online NPDN Training http://cbc.at.ufl.edu/ http://cbc.at.ufl.edu/ Link to all Information from the Florida Plant Diagnostic Network http://fpdn.ifas.ufl.edu/ http://fpdn.ifas.ufl.edu/

5. Florida’s Distance Diagnostic and Identification System (DDIS) All County Agents Can Access Specialists All County Agents Can Access Specialists Diagnostic Labs Integrally Connected Diagnostic Labs Integrally Connected Growers and Users Outside of UF/IFAS Submit Samples to the County-Level Growers and Users Outside of UF/IFAS Submit Samples to the County-Level http://ddis.ifas.ufl.edu/ Jiannong Xin Office of Information Technology University of Florida/IFAS-IT xin@ufl.edu

6. Creating an Account Go to the DDIS homepage and click ‘Sign Up’ http://ddis.ifas.ufl.edu/ http://ddis.ifas.ufl.edu/

8. Florida’s Distance Diagnostic and Identification System (DDIS)

11. Sample types  Plant disease  Insect (plant)  Insect (non-plant)  Invasive species  Plant management, physiology and nutrient problems  Plant and weed  Livestock

12. Media Close-up view Microscope view Multimedia Textual field data Field view

13. Florida’s Distance Diagnostic and Identification System (DDIS)

18. County Clientele Screen View

19. Samples Submitted First to County Agents

20. DDIS-Practice Submitting Testing Site Testing Site http://ddist.ifas.ufl.edu/ http://ddist.ifas.ufl.edu/ http://ddist.ifas.ufl.edu/ Enter County Name (lowercase) Enter County Name (lowercase) Today’s Training- Today’s Training- Gainesville-bradford Gainesville-bradford Milton-santa rosa Milton-santa rosa Homestead-miami-dade Homestead-miami-dade Password 1234 Password 1234 CD-R contains test ‘practice images’. CD-R contains test ‘practice images’.

21. Contact Information Amanda Hodges, Ph.D. achodges@ufl.edu Entomology & Nematology Department University of Florida, IFAS Gainesville, FL 32611 Jiannong Xin, Ph.D. xin@ufl.edu Office of Information Technology University of Florida/IFAS-IT Gainesville, FL 32611