▪ Abstract There is increasing pressure to reduce the use of pesticides in modern crop
production to decrease the environmental impact of current practice and to lower production …

A central challenge to studying emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) is a landscape
dilemma: Our best empirical understanding of disease dynamics occurs at local scales …

Excessive use of pesticides for plant disease treatment increases costs and raises the
danger of toxic residue levels on agricultural products. As pesticides are among the highest …

Detecting plant health condition is an important step in controlling disease and insect stress
in agricultural crops. In this study, we applied neural network and principal components …

Monitoring airborne inoculum is gaining interest as a potential means of giving growers an
earlier warning of disease risk in a management unit or region. This information is sought by …

Plant, animal and human diseases spread by microscopic airborne particles have had major
economic and social impacts during history. Special air-sampling devices have been used …

Global climate change and anthropological activities have led to a decline in insect
pollinators worldwide. Agricultural globalisation and intensification have also removed crops …

To make quantitative predictions about the pollen dispersal of a plant species under different
environmental conditions, it is necessary to determine its individual pollen dispersal …

The ability to identify diseases in an early infection stage and to accurately quantify the
severity of infection is crucial in plant disease assessment and management. A greenhouse …

The worldwide destructive epidemic of the fungus Mycosphaerella fijiensis on banana
started recently, spreading from South‐East Asia. The founder effects detected in the global …