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SUMMARY:Saving plants with maths: modelling the biological control of crop
  disease - Robin Thompson
DTSTART:20120508T193000Z
DTEND:20120508T200000Z
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CONTACT:Roeland Verhallen
DESCRIPTION:With commonly-used techniques for controlling crop diseases\, 
 such as fungicides and crop rotation\, subject to ecological\, economic an
 d environmental disadvantages\, experimentalists have become increasingly 
 interested in biological control\, where a natural enemy of a pathogen is 
 deployed to reduce disease. We demonstrate how the probability of an epide
 mic occurring depends sensitively on the exact definition used\, and then 
 extend the analysis to include an agent of biological control. The results
  have clear significance in terms of optimising the deployment of biologic
 al control and explaining the variability that has all too often beset per
 formance in the field.\n
LOCATION:Senior Parlour\, Gonville & Caius College
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