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Disease–weather relationships influencing Septoria leaf blotch (SLB) preceding growth stage (GS) 31 were identified using data from 12 sites in the UK covering 8 years. Based on these relationships, an early-warning predictive model for SLB on winter wheat was formulated to predict the occurrence of a damaging epidemic (defined as disease severity of 5% or > 5% on the top three leaf layers). The final model was based on accumulated rain > 3 mm in the 80-day period preceding GS 31 (roughly from early-February to the end of April) and accumulated minimum temperature with a 0°C base in the 50-day period starting from 120 days preceding GS 31 (approximately January and February). The model was validated on an independent data set on which the prediction accuracy was influenced by cultivar resistance. Over all observations, the model had a true positive proportion of 0.61, a true negative proportion of 0.73, a sensitivity of 0.83, and a specificity of 0.18. True negative proportion increased to 0.85 for resistant cultivars and decreased to 0.50 for susceptible cultivars. Potential fungicide savings are most likely to be made with resistant cultivars, but such benefits would need to be identified with an in-depth evaluation.
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This project has been funded by The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), UK. Rothamsted Research receives support from the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). Weather data used are Crown Copyright supplied by the UK Meteorological Office.
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te Beest, D.E., Shaw, M.W., Pietravalle, S. et al. A predictive model for early-warning of Septoria leaf blotch on winter wheat. Eur J Plant Pathol 124, 413–425 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10658-009-9428-0
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