The BlightTracker APP

The Blight Tracker App is a crowdsource APP, that needs no login. Open the Link below on your phone, tablet and computer and you are up running. Save as bookmark on your phone or use any other option that it will be easy to find for you. 

BlightTracker App: https://arcg.is/00TiKy0

BlightTracker Dashboard with data uploaded: https://arcg.is/aS8v2

Target users in 2025 are all EuroBlight partners contributing to monitoring of P. infestans and Alternaria spp.The data will be used for:

• Practice: Early warning and indication of the stability of host resistance

• EuroBlight monitoring: Upload passport data during sampling of isolates for genotyping and phenotyping    

When results are analysed and quality controlled they will be displayed on the BlightTracker-Pathogen Dashboard

Getting started:

Info and help will explain about the APP and how data are used by whom. You can chose a date, or use the current date. Write the name of the location. Select the growth stage of the crop in the drop down boks. Select the Survey site type. Write the cultivar name. If unknown then write "Unknown". Select if you will report potato late blight or potato early blight. you can not do both in one session. Select the level of disease

Take one or more photos, or upload a photo. The photos below were uploaded via the computer browser mode. Only select Sample late blight if you intend to do a sample.If yes the open and select live sample or FTA card (dead sample). If the FTA card has a barcode then scan the barcode. Alternatively, write the sample code as Country (ISO2 capital letters), year (YYYY format), user initials (alphabetic, at least 2 letters), sample number (numeric, at least 2 digits). (e.g., DK2025JGH01). Write a comment. This will not be shown on the Dashboard, but can be used by the lab receiving the sample. Click on the compas icon to get your position. Alternatively write the location name or gps as longitude, latiude as decimal coordinates eg. 10.5467, 52.4546. Select the submit button to submit your recording