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Lentinula

Lentinula is a small genus of wood-inhabiting agarics. The neotropical species Lentinula boryana is the type species. However, the best-known species is L. edodes, the shiitake. The genus was erected by Franklin Sumner Earle in 1909, and as of 2023 contains ten species, principally found in tropical regions.

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Thousands of labeled shiitake photos could teach computers to grade...

Growing shiitake at home or at scale means sorting by hand every time; AI trained on datasets lik...

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Thousands of labeled shiitake photos could teach computers to grade mushrooms

Researchers built a large, freely available image dataset of shiitake mushrooms photographed in real growing conditions, covering three varieties and four categories including growth stages and deformed specimens. The dataset is designed to train AI systems that can automate mushroom grading, harvesting robots, and yield estimation.

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