Computer-Based Study for Plant Pathology and Biodiversity

Description

For field crops, horticulture, plant breeding, and improving fungicide efficacy, as well as for basic and applied plant research, accurate estimates of disease incidence, disease severity, and the detrimental impacts of diseases on the quality and quantity of agricultural products are crucial. According to the principal causative agent, which may be infectious or noninfectious, plant diseases can be broadly categorized. An infectious pathogenic organism, such as a fungus, bacterium, mycoplasma, virus, viroid, nematode, or parasitic flowering plant, is what causes plant illnesses that are contagious. An infectious agent has the ability to reproduce both inside and on its host and disseminate to additional hosts who are susceptible to it. Recently, computer science, biology, and natural resource management researchers gathered to discuss how to focus computer science and information technology research on the complex and frequently unique problems that arise in the biodiversity and ecosystem domains. The workshop and its final report make clear that the fields of biodiversity and ecosystem sciences are fundamentally information sciences and frequently deal with issues that are unique in their scope and socio-technical complexity. The book will serve as a toolset for the collection, administration, and analysis of geographical data across the entire field of plant pathology. Experimental designs, field-plot, and statistical methods have been taught with a focus on what beginning plant breeding students need to learn.