Plant diseases are responsible of many crop loses all over the world. These phytopathological damages imply several others problems in different sectors concerning human health, the environment and some social and economic aspects of our life. In order to have efficient solutions to control the causal agents of these diseases it is very important to understand the mechanism of these threats very well.
Through the example type of the biomodel Citrus- Phoma tracheiphila, it will be shown how the application of an accurate biomathematical model helps to understand better the host-parasite interaction in the system biology and to have an efficient decision tool to foresee the most efficient control methods of the pathogenic causal agents of these diseases.
A brief review of the different models used in plant pathology will be exposed. The evaluation methods of the disease and the statistical analyses employed in the studies of the plant disease epidemiology will be resumed mentioning the limits of their applications. A particular attention will be given to the way of solving the problems related to the restriction of these methods and the need to develop new models as a common decision tool especially for the worldwide spread pathogens. A practical demonstration using experimental data and a prototype biosoftware will be conducted.
Language: English
Duration: 1 academic hour
Tutor of the course:
K. Khanchouch, University of Tunis, Tunisia