Practical application of integrated disease management
A decision support system for cereal diseases and late blight of potatoes has been developed at the Chair of Phytopathology,<br />Technische Universität München. The Wheat and Barley Prognosis System has been in use for many years by the<br />Bavarian official advisory service. It is based on an exact diagnosis and established biological thresholds influenced by<br />weather. Certain fungicides are recommended also covering diseases which have not reached the threshold. Diseases under<br />consideration are eye spot disease, powdery mildew, Septoria leaf blotch, Septoria leaf and glume blotch, tan spot, brown<br />and yellow rusts.The PhytophthoraModel Weihenstephan consists of two parts, weather based prognosis and monitoring in<br />the unsprayed control plots. Spraying recommendations are given based on the results of the above-mentioned parts and<br />considering cultivar behaviour and blight development in the field. The first spraying in the season as well as the timing<br />of the following ones are crucial. This model does not give any recommendations regarding which active ingredient should<br />applied. However there is a distinction made with regard to contact (protective) fungicides and systemic fungicides. The<br />PhytophthoraModel Weihenstephan has been in use for several years in Germany as well as in Austria.