Reference Section for Management Utilities

References 1, 2 and 3: Curve-fitting algorithm for Seinhorst model

1. Seinhorst, J. W. 1965. The relation between nematode density and damage to plants. Ncmatologica l 1:137-154.

2. Ferris, H.  1978.  Nematode economic thresholds:  derivation, requirements and theoretical considerations.  Journal of Nematology 10:341-350.

3. Ferris, H., W. D. Turner and L. W. Duncan.  1981.  An algorithm for fitting Seinhorst curves to the relationship between plant growth and preplant nematode densities.  Journal of Nematology 13:300-30

 

References 4 and 5 for Economic Threshold Calculator

4. Ferris, H.  1978.  Nematode economic thresholds:  derivation, requirements and theoretical considerations.  Journal of Nematology 10:341-350.

5. Ferris, H.  1981.  Dynamic action thresholds for diseases induced by nematodes.  Annual Review of Phytopathology 19:427-436.

References 6 and 7 for Rotation Length Optimizers

6. Burt, O. R. and H. Ferris.  1996.  Sequential decision rules for managing nematodes with crop rotations.  Journal of Nematology 28:457-474.

7.Ferris, H., H. L. Carlson and B. B. Westerdahl.  1994.  Nematode population changes under crop rotation sequences:  consequences for potato production.  Agronomy Journal 86:340-348.

References 8 and 9 for Cover Crop and Rotation Crop Selectors (I think these two are pretty clever and potentially quite useful!!  However, they do not include the full set of Nemabase host status data)

8. A utility tfor selecting cover crops based on the perceived importance of nematode species in the field.

9. A utility tfor selecting rotation crops based on the perceived importance of nematode species in the field.