Obtaining weather data for input to crop disease-warning systems: leaf wetness duration as a case study Obtenção de dados meteorológicos para sistemas de alerta fitossanitário: o caso da duração do período de molhamento foliar

Disease-warning systems are decision support tools designed to help growers determine when to apply control measures to suppress crop diseases. Weather data are nearly ubiquitous inputs to warning systems. This contribution reviews ways in which weather data are gathered for use as inputs to disease...

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Main Authors: Mark L. Gleason, Katrina B. Duttweiler, Jean C. Batzer, S. Elwynn Taylor, Paulo Cesar Sentelhas, José Eduardo Boffino Almeida Monteiro, Terry J. Gillespie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2008-12-01
Series:Scientia Agricola
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-90162008000700013