CABI’s Crop Pest Diagnosis course is designed to support teachers and trainers in agricultural education institutions and in the workplace. It provides interactive exercises and resources to help users improve their ability to recognise symptoms and identify causes.

The course guides learners through initially identifying symptoms and moves onto the causes of those symptoms both biotic and abiotic problems, whilst providing a methodology for field-based crop pest diagnosis.

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There are 5 modules approximately lasting 30 minutes each.

	Module 1. Symptoms: The symptoms that plants express when they are in some sort of distress
	Module 2. Insects and mites: Common groups of insect pests that attack plants
	Module 3. Causes: The association of symptoms and causes
	Module 4. Plant nutrition: The symptoms plants show when short of a particular nutrient
	Module 5. Diagnostics: Requires students to draw on their newly acquired skills as they are guided into making appropriate diagnoses

Diagnostic Simulator App

The Diagnostic Simulator is a free interactive tool to test student learning on crop pest diagnosis. Highly realistic graphics give the learner the opportunity to zoom in on symptoms, turn the plant around, cut the plant open and look inside the plant.

Users are asked to name the symptoms (and are scored on their symptom recognition) and then to make a diagnosis (also scored on the quality of their diagnosis). The app is available for Android devices only, through the Google Play store.

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