Hi! Even if the smell was detectable ahead of visible symptoms, it would only happen after infection occurred. At that point, no spraying is possible. So I don’t see how smell would be useful (?) The only management option after infection is pruning out, which can’t be done by smell ;-)
> Also as everybody knows the sickly sweet smell that FB has, Can a dog be > trained to alert on FB before its even apparent to us humans? The whole point of predicting infection (via computers or otherwise) is to help make appropriate spraying decisions, ahead of infection. Vincent Vincent Philion, agr., M.Sc. Microbiologiste/Phytopathologiste (pomiculture) Institut de recherche et de développement en agro-environnement Research and Development Institute for the Agri-Environment www.irda.qc.ca Centre de recherche 335, Rang des Vingt-Cinq Est Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville (Québec) J3V 0G7 [email protected] _______________________________________________ apple-crop mailing list [email protected] http://virtualorchard.net/mailman/listinfo/apple-crop
