Organic Rules Database: to support revision of the EU Regulation on organic agriculture

Within the FP6 project, ORGANIC REVISION a public web-based database was implemented to support revision of the EU Regulation on organic agriculture. The database describes differences between the major European organic production standards plus other relevant organic standards (e.g. Codex Alimentarius and IFOAM Basic Standards) in relation to the EEC Reg. 2092/91 (“the EU Regula-tion”) and gives information on areas not yet covered by the EEC Reg. 2092/91. The database at: http://www.organicrules.org, is still under development

Operational database for storing and extracting data

This deliverable lays out the work as done as part of MACSUR CropM on data, with the  focus on improving data management and have shared data curation for future use. The  issue was tackled with help from the MACSUR central hub coordination in the form of Jason  Jargenson from University of Reading. The data management as proposed and  implemented in this deliverable is very much a bottom up process, in which partners in a  meeting in Spring 2013 in Aarhus investigated the best way forward for data management  across activities in CropM.As a follow up to this, the work was mainly divided in three  parts:  1. The  Open  Data  Journal  for  Agricultural  Research,  mainly  focused  on  long  term  data  archival  and  citation  of  data  sets,  as  input  and  outputs  to  the  modelling  work,  as  part  of  MACSUR,  lead  by  Wageningen  UR  2. The  Geonetwork  data  catalog  hosted  at  Aarhus  Universitet,  that  allows  for  operational  access  and  storage  of  data  sets  as  part  of  the  ongoing  work,  also  for  restricted  access  of  the  consortium,  and  as  a  first  step  to  visualization,  lead  by  Aarhus  Universitet.  3. The  work  on  rating  data  sets,  that  provides  a  tool  for  improving  data  set  access  in  an  early  phase  for  connecting  them  to  models,  lead  by  Reading  University.  At the end of the deliverable some next steps are giving for data activities in the context  of AgMIP and beyond

Operational database for storing and extracting data

This deliverable lays out the work as done as part of MACSUR CropM on data, with the  focus on improving data management and have shared data curation for future use. The  issue was tackled with help from the MACSUR central hub coordination in the form of Jason  Jargenson from University of Reading. The data management as proposed and  implemented in this deliverable is very much a bottom up process, in which partners in a  meeting in Spring 2013 in Aarhus investigated the best way forward for data management  across activities in CropM.As a follow up to this, the work was mainly divided in three  parts:  1. The  Open  Data  Journal  for  Agricultural  Research,  mainly  focused  on  long  term  data  archival  and  citation  of  data  sets,  as  input  and  outputs  to  the  modelling  work,  as  part  of  MACSUR,  lead  by  Wageningen  UR  2. The  Geonetwork  data  catalog  hosted  at  Aarhus  Universitet,  that  allows  for  operational  access  and  storage  of  data  sets  as  part  of  the  ongoing  work,  also  for  restricted  access  of  the  consortium,  and  as  a  first  step  to  visualization,  lead  by  Aarhus  Universitet.  3. The  work  on  rating  data  sets,  that  provides  a  tool  for  improving  data  set  access  in  an  early  phase  for  connecting  them  to  models,  lead  by  Reading  University.  At the end of the deliverable some next steps are giving for data activities in the context  of AgMIP and beyond

Weather risk models for prediction of septoria tritici blotch

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Weather risk models for prediction of septoria tritici blotch

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Tracking P. infestans populations via molecular fingerprinting and a comprehensive isolate database

Potato late blight control is challenging even in a stable environment. Understanding and, furthermore, predicting how the pathogen will respond to a given set of agronomic and environmental conditions is a key element of successful disease management. It is clear that blight control represents a moving target. Disease incidence and severity and the efficacy of control measures are not easy to predict and depend on several factors. Long and short-term changes in climatic conditions will clearly have a significant impact and chan-ges in active ingredients for chemical control, potato varieties and agronomic practices will similarly influence the disease. Overlying this are changes in the pathogen population that may either be occurring in response to, or independently from, the other factors. Fluxes in P. infestans populations have been described and there is an ever-expanding weight of literature documenting such change. However, until recently much of the population monitoring has been on a local scale and wider comparisons, over longer timescales, with meanngful sample sizes, have been challenging. The EU-funded EUCABLIGHT project has changed this via the assembly of a comprehensive database on almost 17,000 isolates of P. infestans from 21 European countries. A key element of the database is novel SSR fingerprint data that, for the first time, is allowing an objective picture of the pathogen population structure on a European scale. Overviews of the data and more detailed insights into local populations using SSR data will be presented and discussed.vokMyynti MTT Tietopalvelut 31600 Jokioine

Improvement of potato late blight forecasting

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EURORES Eurowheat Fungicide Resistance Network

Currently wheat production in western Europe is reliant on the application of plant protection products throughout the growing season. Fungicides account for approximately 25% of these applications, with septoria tritici blotch, caused by Zymoseptoria tritici the primary target. Unfortunately the evolutionary potential of Z. tritici, coupled with the high specific nature of current fungicide chemistries place the pathogen at a high risk of fungicide resistance development. Over the past decade the consequences of this have been observed at field level. In addition to fungicide resistance, changes in the registration of plant protection products within the EU will impact upon the availability of current and future chemistries. It is therefore imperative that both the potential development of resistance and subsequent spread is minimized. As part of the C-IPM ERA-NET, EUR-RES was established with in the EUROWHEAT platform to provide the basis from which to achieve this goal. Specifically the EURO-RES project aims to A) determine levels of resistance and the dynamics of resistance spread in partner countries B) determine the impacts of fungicide control strategies using the diversity in resistance levels throughout western Europe and C) make publically available the research findings through the EUROWHEAT platform in such a manner that they can be readily utlised by extension services and growers