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Investigate and develop different modelling approaches in extending understanding and quantification of biological systems

Reference	BBS/E/C/00004209
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Dr Frank van den Bosch
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors
Institution	Rothamsted Research
Department	Rothamsted Research Department
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	192,950
Status	Completed
Type	Institute Project
Start date	01/04/1999
End date	31/03/2004
Duration	60 months

Abstract

This project will investigate, develop and compare modelling approaches to extend our understanding of plant disease epidemiology. Modelling is an essential tool in understanding and predicting the behaviour of biological systems, and plant disease epidemics provide a good example. Models provide a method of amalgamating and translating biological knowledge into a quantitative form which can be used to objectively describe and predict the system. Failure in these models to match reality may reveal gaps in our knowledge about the system guiding further experimental research. Close interaction between modelling and experimental work is thus mutually beneficial. However, different modelling approaches will be succesfull indifferent circumstances due to both intrincic properties of the model and the practical problems of parameter estimation. This project will consider modelling approaches for plant disease epidemics and where possible test the methods by fitting models to data sets. Various disease data sets are currently available from experiments at Rothamsted and through collaborations, giving an opportunity to test modelling approaches.

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Committee	Closed Committee - Plant & Microbial Sciences (PMS)
Research Topics	X – not assigned to a current Research Topic
Research Priority	X – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative	X - not in an Initiative
Funding Scheme	X – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme

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