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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PLANT PATHOLOGY
Volume 110, Issue 2, Pages 183-192Publisher
KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL
DOI: 10.1023/B:EJPP.0000015359.61910.3b
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blackleg; Brassica napus; disease assessment; disease spatial pattern; sampling
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A sound assessment of phoma stem canker symptoms is needed to develop epidemiological, agronomical and physiological studies on the pathosystem. A specific analysis was therefore carried out to: (i) compare four methods of crown canker assessment; (ii) test the among and within assessor repeatability of one of the methods compared; (iii) characterise the spatial pattern of the disease; and (iv) define the sample size required to achieve a given level of disease assessment precision. The methods compared examined the symptoms with different procedures and graded the plants observed into six severity classes. A disease index (DI) summarised the severity distribution observed. Examination of crown cross-sections was the most precise method for assessing crown cankers. The method was repeatable, though an 'assessor effect' was apparent. The disease generally had a random pattern although significant spatial correlations were detected for four out of the fifteen plots studied at the scales examined. A relationship between the coefficient of variation of the DI and the sample size was established, evaluated with experimental field data and exemplified for typical severity distributions.
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