Use of data from a disease management service to develop protocols for disease forecasting and management in mushroom production

摘要

Worldwide, mushrooms are usually grown in specially constructed rooms. Despite this, the industry still has pest and disease problems, some of which gain entry to the system at the weak links, such as when the rooms are filled or the casing layer applied. Hence, events outside the rooms still have an impact on the efficient cultivation of mushrooms.However, as cultivation does occur indoors, mushroom growers do have better options for physical exclusion, environmental management and containing problems than most other agricultural industries. Access to pesticides by the mushroom industry on an international basis is being restricted by a combination of pest/disease resistance and withdrawal of registration by legislative means. This reduction places more emphasis on physical exclusion and containment of problems, increasing the importance of understanding disease epidemiology.