Leadbeater A. (2015): Recent developments and challenges in chemical disease control. Plant Protect. Sci., 51: 163–169. The use of chemical fungicides to control plant diseases is an integral component of crop management. Although fungicides have been used to good effect in agriculture since the 1940s, the introduction of new fungicides is an essential element to provide sustained control of ma...

The major challenges in sustainable and profitable agriculture are developing high-yielding crop varieties reducing losses. Presently, there significant losses due to weed/bird/insect/animal attacks. Among the various renewable energy sources, solar is utilized for different agricultural operations, especially plant protection applications. Solar photovoltaic (PV) devices present a positive app...

This work describes a tool that aids the development of a plant protection expert system (ES) for field crops. It is the result of accumulation of knowledge and expertise for building agricultural expert systems for about 20 years in the Central Laboratory for agricultural Expert Systems (CLAES). We have found out that all crop management tasks are candidate for using the ES technology to trans...