Forecast models of coffee leaf rust symptoms and signs based on identified microclimatic combinations in coffee-based agroforestry systems in Costa Rica

Merle Isabelle, Tixier Philippe, de Melo Virginio Filho Elias, Cilas Christian, Avelino Jacques. 2020. Forecast models of coffee leaf rust symptoms and signs based on identified microclimatic combinations in coffee-based agroforestry systems in Costa Rica. Crop Protection, 130, 105046, 15 p.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cropro.2019.105046

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Quartile : Q2, Sujet : AGRONOMY

Résumé : Coffee leaf rust is a polycyclic disease that causes severe epidemics impacting yield over several years. For this reason, since the 1960s, more than 20 models have been developed to predict different indicators of the disease's development and help manage it. In existing models, standardized periods of influence of the meteorological predictors of the disease are determined a priori, based on strong assumptions. However, the appearance of a symptom or sign can be influenced by complex combinations of meteorological variables acting at different times and for different durations. In our study, we monitored a total of 5400 coffee leaves during a year and a half, in different agroforestry systems, in order to detect the onset dates of the disease symptoms, such as lesion emergence, and signs, such as sporulation and infectious area increase. In these agroforestry systems, we also recorded microclimate. We statistically identified the complex combinations of microclimatic variables responsible for changes in lesion status to construct three models predicting lesion emergence probability, lesion sporulation probability and growth of its infectious area. Our method allowed the identification of different microclimatic variables that fit well with the knowledge about the coffee leaf rust biology. Minimum air temperature from 20 to 18 days before a lesion emergence explained the status change from healthy to emergence of visible lesion, possibly because the short germination phase is stimulated by low temperatures. We also found a unimodal effect of rainfall over a period of 10 days, 33 days before lesion emergence, with a maximum at 10 mm. Below this threshold, uredospore dispersal is efficient, increasing the lesion appearance probability; above this threshold, wash-off effects on uredospores probably occurs, decreasing the probability of lesion emergence. In addition, we identified microclimatic variables whose influence on coffee leaf rust had not been described before. These variables are likely to be involved in the internal development phases of the disease in the coffee leaves: (1) unimodal effects of maximum air temperature in different periods on sporulation and infectious area growth (2) positive and unimodal effects of rainfall in different periods on sporulation and (3) a negative effect of leaf thermal amplitude in different periods on lesion emergence, sporulation and infectious area growth. Although these models do not provide predictors of the level of disease attack, such as incidence, they provide valuable information for warning systems and for mechanistic model development. These models could also be used to forecast risks of infection, sporulation and infectious area growth and help optimize treatment recommendations.

Mots-clés Agrovoc : Hemileia vastatrix, Coffea arabica, données climatiques, température de l'air, pluviométrie, modèle mathématique, technique de prévision

Mots-clés géographiques Agrovoc : Costa Rica

Mots-clés libres : Hemileia vastatrix, Coffea arabica, Weather-based statistical modeling, Daily temperature, Daily rainfall

Classification Agris : H20 - Maladies des plantes
U10 - Informatique, mathématiques et statistiques

Champ stratégique Cirad : CTS 4 (2019-) - Santé des plantes, des animaux et des écosystèmes

Agences de financement européennes : European Commission

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