Weather fluctuation can override the effects of integrated nutrient management on fungal disease incidence in the rice fields in Taiwan

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 12; no. 1; pp. 4273 - 9
• Main Authors: Chiu, Ming-Chih, Chen, Chi-Ling, Chen, Chun-Wei, Lin, Hsing-Juh
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 11.03.2022; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 631/158; 631/158/2456; Bayes Theorem; Bayesian analysis; Crop diseases; Epidemiology; Farming; Farming systems; Fertilizer application; Fertilizers; Fungal diseases; Humanities and Social Sciences; Humans; Humidity; Incidence; multidisciplinary; Mycoses; Nutrients; Rain; Rainfall; Relative humidity; Rice; Rice blast; Rice fields; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Taiwan - epidemiology; Weather; Taiwan

Both weather fluctuation and farming system influence the epidemiology of crop diseases. However, short-term experiments are difficult to mechanistically extrapolate into long-term ecological responses. Using a mechanistic model with Bayesian inference, long-term data spanning 10 years were used to...