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* MoreCrop Developers
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* Barley Disease
* MoreCrop
Roland F. Line, Ramon M. Cu, and Don E. Mathre
USDA-ARS
Wheat Genetics Physiology
and Disease Research Unit
P.O. Box 646430
Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164-6430
Montana State University
Bozeman, Montana
 Comments and questions about MoreCrop send email to:
morecrop@listproc.wsu.edu
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MoreCrop for Barley, an expert system for managing diseases
of barley in the Pacific Northwest, was developed by Roland F.
Line, USDA-ARS, Wheat Genetics, Physiology, and Disease Research
Unit, WSU in Pullman, Washington; Ramon M. Cu, Washington State
University, Pullman, Washington; and Don E. Mathre, Montana State
University, Bozeman, Montana. MoreCrop for Barley is an adaptation
of the MoreCrop model for wheat.
The wheat model of MoreCrop started in 1991 as an expansion
of earlier guidelines for integrated control of rusts and other
diseases, and it is based on more than 40 years of experience
and research data by R.F. Line on crop management, epidemiology,
and control of rusts, smuts, and other diseases. Information
from other plant pathologists and crop scientists was also utilized.
R. M. Cu utilized the existing knowledge on artificial intelligence
and expert systems to develop MoreCrop. The acronym MoreCrop
(Managerial Option for Reasonable Economical Control of Rusts
and Other Pathogens) was carefully selected to have significant
meaning to the users. MoreCrop was distributed to the wheat growers
and crop advisers in the Pacific Northwest in August 1993 through
the Washington State University Cooperative Extension Office
as Extension Bulletin MCP0022. A full description of the concept
and use of MoreCrop was published by the American Phytopathological
Society in the journal Plant Disease (R. M. Cu and R. F. Line.
1994. An expert advisory system for wheat disease management.
Plant Dis. 78:209-215). MoreCrop was featured in the Information
Technology Workshop during the 6th International Congress of
Plant Pathology, Montréal, Canada in 1993. The system
was demonstrated at American Phytopathological Society workshops
and integrated management meetings and was tested by numerous
advisory experts and wheat specialists.
Changes in hardware and software from 1993 to 1998 provided
an opportunity to upgrade MoreCrop utilizing new computer technology.
MoreCrop version 2.0 for wheat was released in the spring of
1999. The new version was made flexible with a new capability.
A powerful database was infused to hold cultivar information.
The new features included are enhancement in the crop managerial
selection, improvement in data management of cultivars, additional
diseases (an increase from 16 to 30 diseases), high resolution
images of diseases, and high flexibility in changing the use
of fungicides.
MoreCrop was adapted for barley and developed specifically
for the PNW in 1999. This application included 24 barley diseases,
barley production regions and zones, barley management practices,
types and classes of barley cultivars, and disease history. The
first version of MoreCrop for Barley was evaluated and distributed
later in the fall of 1999. |