“…Other DSSs, such as Coptimizer (Kuflik et al, 2009), are specifically aimed at keeping the amount of fungicides below the regulatory threshold, adjusting the copper dose on the basis of the grape growth stage, amount of rainfall and shoot growth. Another group of DSSs were developed with the specific aim of adapting the fungicide dose to the vine canopy characteristics, such as Dosavina (Gil et al, 2011), LAI adapted dosage (Siegfried et al, 2007), and Optidose ® (Davy et al, 2010). Despite their promises, most DSSs have contributed little to practical agriculture (Magarey et al, 2002) because of some limits that slow down a the wider adoption of DSS in viticulture, as: i) their high specificity (e.g.…”