Integrated Control for Cereal Diseases

Application of the integrated control philosophy presupposes that adequate background research has been done: qualitative surveys involving the exact identification of the pathogens which actually cause financial losses, quantitative surveys involving estimation of populations and the threshold of damage that makes chemical control economically desirable. These surveys should be used as a research tool to determine and understand the role of different factors in the size of pathogen populations. The application of integrated control to winter wheat in Belgium is described.