Communications Earth & Environment (Oct 2021)

Decision support systems halve fungicide use compared to calendar-based strategies without increasing disease risk

  • Elena Lázaro,
  • David Makowski,
  • Antonio Vicent

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-021-00291-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Using decision support systems to schedule fungicide application based on disease risk provides similar protection to calendar-based strategies but uses 50% less fungicide, according to a global meta-analysis.