Abstract
The Agricultural Production and Externalities Simulator (APES) is a modular simulation model system
for estimating the biophysical behaviour of agricultural production systems in response to the
interaction of weather, soil and agro-technical management options (APES, 2008). APES has been
developed to allow the incorporation of other components which might be needed in order to simulate
processes not yet included in the current version. Among these processes, plant diseases are interesting
candidates because of their effects on crop yield and because of the implications as agro-chemicals use.
A Diseases software component is currently under development adopting the design summarized by
Donatelli and Rizzoli (2008). It aims at estimating the impacts of plant disease epidemics on plant
growth and yield. It consists of four modules providing a generic frame to simulate disease
development: 1) Disease progress, 2) Inoculum pressure (initial conditions), 3) Impacts on plants, and
4) Agricultural management impact on pathogen populations. The Disease progress module, developed
as a generic model framework to simulate the epidemics caused by fungal pathogens, is briefly
described herein
Lingua originale | Inglese |
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pagine (da-a) | 751-752 |
Numero di pagine | 2 |
Rivista | Italian Journal of Agronomy |
Stato di pubblicazione | Pubblicato - 2008 |
Evento | 10th Congress of the European Society of Agronomy Multi-functional Agriculture. Agriculture as a resource for energy and environmental preservation - Bologna Durata: 15 set 2008 → 19 set 2008 |
Keywords
- disease progress model
- plant disease epidemics