Crop Disease Modeling and Disease Warning System

Dear Colleagues,

I hereby invite you to contribute to this Special Issue titled "Crop Disease Modeling and Disease Warning System" in the MPDI journal Agronomy. 

Plant diseases are a major threat to the profitability and sustainability of agricultural production when left uncontrolled. Agricultural stakeholders are increasingly under pressure to adapt their decision-making to make more informed and efficient use of fertilizers and pesticides. They also face increasing uncertainty in how best to respond to competing health, environment, and (sustainable) development impacts and risks. Disease dynamics involves a complex interaction between a host, a pathogen, and their environment, representing one of the largest risks facing the long-term sustainability of agriculture. Disease risk and prediction models, considered as standalone or integrated within disease-warning systems, can help unravel the complex interconnection between the various factors conducive to disease outbreaks, thereby supporting decision making for improved disease management. 

This Special Issue invites high-quality and innovative scientific research articles or reviews papers describing cutting-edge research on the application of plant disease models or integrated disease warning systems to support the adoption of efficacious and environmentally friendly strategies to control plant disease in agricultural crops.

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Agronomy is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• Crop protection
• Foliar fungal disease
• Plant disease risk
• Plant disease management
• Preventive fungicide application
• Food security