Enhancement of the Cornell Decision Support System for Potato and Tomato Late Blight

dc.contributor.author	Fry, William E.
dc.date.accessioned	2016-03-01T13:16:49Z
dc.date.available	2016-03-01T13:16:49Z
dc.date.issued	2012
dc.description.abstract	Late blight of potato and tomato is one of the most serious and dramatic of plant diseases. The pandemic on tomatoes in 2009 throughout the Northeast was a reminder that this disease can still erupt to cause severe damage to tomatoes and potatoes. The Cornell Decision Support System (DSS) is a web-based tool that aids growers to avoid calamity caused by this disease. The DSS integrates effects of weather, host resistance, pathogen presence, pathogen characteristics and fungicide to enable effective and low pesticide suppression of this disease. The enhancements developed as result of this IPM grant were: i) to expand the number of fungicides available in the DSS; ii) to modify recommendations based on the increased number of fungicides. The enhancements and modifications were demonstrated to be effective in a field experiment. Thus, the DSS is now a more useful tool in the constant struggle against this severe disease.
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1813/42506
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	New York State IPM Program
dc.subject	Agricultural IPM
dc.subject	Tomatoes
dc.subject	Potatoes
dc.subject	Vegetables
dc.title	Enhancement of the Cornell Decision Support System for Potato and Tomato Late Blight
dc.type	report

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