Assessment of ear insects in wheat varieties: Monitoring & Managment

ISBN-13: 9783838135830 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 124 str.

Christa Volkmar;Nabil El-Wakeil;Nawal Gaafar

Opis

Computer programs can help in information recovery and decision support when dealing with pest problems. These decision support tools can provide farmers with easy, rapid access to accurate information that can help them to obtain the threshold to make adequate management decisions. Plans for future field testing and expert system implementation are also discussed. Using such as expert system for controlling wheat ear insects can be successfully applied to the solution of daily problems in plant protection programs for wheat producers. Finally, the obtained results would give a good guide for choosing the proper varieties which proved highly resistant to their specific pests, as an efficient method of integrated plant protection.

O autorze

Gaafar, NawalDr. Nawal Gaafar is working as reseacher in National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt; currently he works as Post doc fellow in Martin Luther- Halle University since May 2012. Dr. Nabil El-Wakeil is working as Assisstant Professor in National Research centre since 20 years.Prof. Dr. Christa Volkmar is working in Martin Luther University,Germany