I am trying to model Early Blight infection on potato crops.
For this I will need some information on several parameters of the species involved.
My list so far includes :
Latent and infectious period
Time to sporulation
Length of sporulation
Amount of spores produced from lesion/area (both in total and in each sporulation cycle)
I have thought of some ways of obtaining the data from detached leaf assays. Most of the ways though would be invasive which would mean I cannot get repeated measurements from the same leaf each time.
Does anyone have any experience with getting this information ? Could you point me to any relevant literature ?
Thank you