Growth and development of plant pathogens (fungi, bacteria) depend most on weather conditions. The main parameters that agriculture weather station have to measure to predict or to say when was infection is air temperature, relative air humidity, moisture content on leaf and precipitation.
Most fungal pathogens of plant diseases can not develop and cause infection without the presence of moisture on the leaf (not all, for example, powdery mildew of grape - Uncinula necator), which makes the leaf moisture a prerequisite for the development of the disease.
When the spores come into contact with moist herbal tissue, it begins to germinate. Spores develop infectious tubes and penetrate the epidermal cell, establish a relationship between sensitive herbal tissue and pathogenic microorganism, this is a moment of infection. The period after infection, and before the visible symptoms of the disease, is called incubation (hidden or latent time). This period may last from several days to several months. The germination time and incubation depend directly on the length of the leaf moisture and temperature. Most of the economically significant pathogens are well-researched by experts. By combining science and modern information technology, prognostic models for plant diseases are obtained.
By purchasing the PinovaMeteo station, the user selects the following forecast models:
Wine grape |
Downy mildew |
Plasmopara viticola |
Powdery mildew | Uncinula necator | |
Gray mold of berry |
Botritys cinerea | |
Gray mold of flower | Botritys cinerea | |
Apple |
Apple scab |
Venturia inaequalis |
Fire blight |
Erwinia amylovora | |
Peach | leaf curl | Taphrina deformans |
Brown rot of stone fruits |
Monilinia fructicola | |
Shot hole disease |
Wilsonomyces carpophilus | |
Apricot |
Shot hole disease |
Wilsonomyces carpophilus |
Pear | Fire blight | Erwinia amylovora |
Pear scab | Venturia pirina | |
Cherry |
Cherry leaf spot |
Blumeriella jaapii |
Brown rot |
Monilinia fructigena | |
Plum | Shot hole disease | Wilsonomyces carpophilus |
Strawberry | Gray mold of stawberry | Botrytis cinerea |
Suger beet |
Sugarbeet leaf spot disease |
Cercospora beticola |
Wheat |
Wheat leaf rust |
Puccinia recondita |
Wheat stripe (yellow) rust |
Puccinia striiformis | |
Speckled leaf blotch | Septoria tritici |
*The following table does not contain all disease models, please contact us for more information.