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Field experiments and sampling of soil and plants started at Rothamsted in the 19th century and continue to provide data relevant to crop protection today, reports Sarah Perryman. She writes: The electronic Rothamsted Archive (e-RA) is a unique internet resource providing access to data from the oldest continuous agronomic experiments in the world and can be used in forecasting diseases and understanding changes in weed flora, disease spectra, pathogen resistance to fungicides and virulence.
Farmers and foresters have the prospect of at least 11 new biological control products to call on in the coming years, with the European BIOCOMES project bringing together 27 business and research partners from 14 different countries to produce alternative means of controlling some of the most significant diseases and pests.
A second international short course on modelling for the sustainable management of crop health is scheduled for early in 2016, following the success of this year's week-long course in Volterra, Italy.
A new paper explores the work of ENDURE's wheat case study team, explaining how the group of scientists and extension workers gathered and analysed information about disease management in winter wheat (Triticum aestivum) in eight European countries.
One aspect of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) regards the selection of pesticides which are not disruptive to beneficial organisms, a task made easier by a number of online sources of information. ENDURE participant Marco Barzman reports on the International Organisation for Biological Control's Pest Select Database, which makes more than 40 years of data on the effects of pesticides on beneficial arthropods available online, plus six other sources of information on pesticide side effects.
A new version of the QuantiPest platform is now online, bringing together information on the characterisation of pest pressure - a major issue for field experiments - which is otherwise scattered and difficult to find.
The New Advisers project held its closing meeting in Budapest in September and leaves behind useful findings and a wealth of learning materials for farm advisers. ENDURE is making sure that the outputs of this interesting two-year project are made widely available.
The first STEPHY Guide on co-designing cropping systems less reliant on pesticides is now available in English. The Guide introduces a four-step learning process for co-designing alternative low-input cropping systems and can be used with advisers, farmers, R&D engineers, local stakeholders, researchers, trainers and students.
More than 40 people from 16 different countries, including researchers, advisers and those involved in innovation support for a more sustainable agriculture, attended ENDURE's European workshop on co-innovation.
ENDURE researchers have used sophisticated modelling techniques to demonstrate how mixing different cultivars of the same crop species can be a useful tactic in managing multiple diseases, writes Natalia Sapoukhina (pictured right).
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