Contents & Courses

The program of ISSPDE 2023 included the following topics:

1. Importance of plant diseases and of plant disease epidemiology - Serge Savary

2. Pathogen detection, disease measurements and sampling - Paul Esker

3. Methodology of epidemiological research - Serge Savary

4. Introduction to epidemiology and R – Paul Esker

5. Temporal disease progress - Laetitia Willocquet

6. Spatial disease distribution and spread - Laetitia Willocquet

7. Use of weather data for agrometeorology and prediction of plant disease epidemics – Manjari Singh

8. Yield losses assessment and modelling - Serge Savary

9. Epidemiology and Host plant resistance- Laetitia Willocquet

10. Combining plant disease, crop and fungicide models for disease management - Vittorio Rossi

11. Decision making – Neil McRoberts

The PDFs of several courses given at the University of Pretoria are available below. PDFs of the Summer School at Raipur, India in 2015, can also be downloaded from this website, on the webpage of ISPP2015.

2. Pathogen detection, disease measurements and sampling - Paul Esker

4. Introduction to epidemiology and R – Paul Esker

5. Temporal disease progress - Laetitia Willocquet

7. Use of weather data for agrometeorology and prediction of plant disease epidemics – Manjari Singh 

9. Epidemiology and Host plant resistance- Laetitia Willocquet

 10. Combining plant disease, crop and fungicide models for disease management - Vittorio Rossi 

 11.  Decision making – Neil McRoberts