Features
- Multiple options which allow the user to enter parameters that best reflect their circumstances.
- Determines the likely powdery mildew severity, yield loss and economic return from the parameters entered.
- Can compare different management strategies.
- Considers complex interactions that affect the disease.
- Allows you to compare the likely profitability of different spray strategies.
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About the app
PowderyMildewMBM accounts for the major factors that influence powdery mildew disease in mung bean. The user can specify factors relating to grain price, input costs, seasonal conditions, and management options so the output relates to their cropping circumstance. Users can also explore options for disease control and understand the relative importance of each factor.
PowderyMildewMBM helps you manage powdery mildew disease in Australian mungbean crops. PowderyMildewMBM draws on several years of field trials and observations, as well as experimental data and expert knowledge from researchers and agronomists to forecast the likely result and economic return of spraying for this disease.
PowderyMildewMBM considers costs, yield benefits, grain price and seasonal conditions to give you the best case, worst case and most likely estimates of fungicide control.
Powdery mildew of mungbean is a difficult disease to predict, and the app considers that it is highly influenced by seasonal conditions.
PowderyMildewMBM gives growers and consultants more confidence in decisions about whether to invest in spraying for the disease.
Note: The app is calibrated for mung bean production in Queensland and northern New South Wales. It has not been tested in the Ord River Irrigation Area of northern Western Australia.
Acknowledgements
PowderyMildewMBM is part of a suite of disease management tools developed and coded by the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development through the National Disease Modelling projects funded by GRDC. This tool was developed and tested in collaboration with the University of Southern Queensland.
PowderyMildewMBM was developed to support the Australian mung bean industry.