Features
- Multiple options allow the user to enter parameters that best reflect their circumstances.
- Determines the likely yield loss from the disease and the economic return from the parameters entered for different environments.
- Considers complex interactions that affect the disease.
- Can compare different management strategies.
- The user can email a paddock report to another person, such as a grower or farm consultant.
- Alternate views of predicted results to suit the user’s preference.
- Available for iPhones/iPads, android phones and tablets.
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About the app
SeptoriaTriticiWM is a decision support tool that assists growers and consultants to manage Septoria tritici blotch (STB) disease in wheat crops in Australia. The tool accounts for some of the major factors that influence yield loss due to STB infection in your paddocks.
SeptoriaTriticiWM takes account of costs, yield benefits, grain price, and seasonal conditions to give best case, worst case, and most likely estimates of financial return from fungicide applications.
The management app allows you to compare the likely profitability of different disease management strategies including variety resistance rating (Resistant versus susceptible), 1 fungicide spray versus 2 fungicide applications, with no disease treatment at all.
The user can specify factors relating to paddock selection, variety, crop growth stage, disease levels, stubble load, seasonal conditions, prices, and management options so the output relates to their cropping circumstance.
The management app will give growers and consultants more confidence in decisions about whether to invest in spraying for the disease.
SeptoriaTriticiWM does not account for all the factors that can affect septoria tritici blotch infection or fungicide performance, so information provided by this tool should be considered as a guide to possible outcomes.
Acknowledgements
SeptoriaTriticiWM has been developed through the ‘Disease epidemiology, modelling and delivery of management decision support tools’ project DAW2112-002RTX. This initiative was co-invested by the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) and Western Australia’s Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD). Development and support have been provided by a collaboration between DPIRD and Agriculture Victoria.
Important development work and contributions to supporting scientific information have been provided by: Steve Collins, Hari Dadu, Harry Eslick, Josh Fanning, Jean Galloway, Fumie Horiuchi, Liz Mackle, Rodrigo Pires, Janette Pratt, Tom Price, and Sneha Sharma.
Important Disclaimer
Always read and follow label directions before using any fungicide product. Trade names in SeptoriaTriticiWM are examples only and not endorsements.
Fungicide resistance is a rapidly evolving challenge for STB management. Response predictions in SeptoriaTriticiWM should be interpreted alongside current local resistance advice. Please check the Curtin University Pesticide Resistance Integrated Mapping (PRIM) tool for the latest information on fungicide resistance in your area.