Adapting Fire Blight Predictive Models to Eastern Washington

Author: Gary G. Grove, R.J. Boal

Published: 1997

Summary: The primary purpose of this project was to establish weather monitoring equipment for long-term investigation of the epidemiology of fire blight in Eastern Washington. They determined the infuence of temperature and duration of wetness on infection of apple and pear flowers.

Keywords:

• Apple
• Crop Protection
• Modeling
• Predictive models
• Weather monitoring
• Plant Diseases
• Fire Blight
• Environment