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phytorisk is an R package developed to quantify the risk of invasion of the oomycete Phytophthora cinnamomi Rands (Pc hereafter). Pc is a pathogen that infects plant’s roots, and in many cases, kills the host. The dispersal of the pathogen depends on multiple factors, which are depicted in the next figure:

Potential mechanisms of dispersal of Pc
  1. Movement of inoculum in the field due to diffusive root-to-root contact mec_rootcontact()

  2. Inoculum movement to roots in water particles within soil mec_soilwater()

  3. Dispersion of inoculum by domestic and wild animal movement mec_zoospread()

  4. Inoculum spread in surface water mec_surfaceflow()

Installation

You can install the last stable version of phytorisk from GitHub with:

# install.packages("pak")
pak::pak("Cidree/phytorisk")