This is a suggested route through the CPC on CD-ROM. It may help you to explore its main features, demonstrate them to someone else, and start addressing your own problems in plant health.
To learn about the Web version of the CPC, point your browser to the Home Page http://www.cabicompendium.org
There's plenty of Help along the way in the CPC itself, and an introductory Guided Tour. Also see the booklet included with the CD-ROM. Information and training sheets provide more details and are available from the Home Page. If you'd like to ask about anything or make suggestions, we'd be glad to hear from you on compend@cabi.org.
From the Main Menu, click the Find-a-Datasheet button.
When you first open the CPC, the index is set to All categories.
Scroll through the list of names to show the extent of the Compendium (more than 10,000 topics). Select a datasheet and click Go to to view the datasheet Cover Page.
In the Search for box, type a country, e.g. 'Indonesia'. Press Go to.
On the country datasheet, click the fourth icon (the Statistics bar chart 
).
Select Agricultural Production and crop production statistics appear. In the fourth selection box, pick Production (Mt), Crops under Crop Filter, then Plot selected to display a graph of the top 20 crops. This shows that rice is the main crop grown in Indonesia.
Return to the Main Menu by selecting Goto on the top toolbar, then Main menu; or just F2. Click on Find-a-Datasheet.
Select Crops from the index. In the Search for box, type rice. Go to.
To learn about rice, click the third icon for the text. Double-click a chapter heading.
Close the text. Go back to the rice Cover Page.
Click the fifth icon 
to get a
Distribution Map of rice.
Right-click any of the Cs to see the supporting data.
Go back to the rice Cover Page, and click the ninth icon 
to list the pests attacking the crop: 427 major and 76 minor pests, diseases
and weeds are recorded from rice in the Compendium. A further 146 are listed
from data mining. At
this point, you can open the
Species search module with records selected from the list.
The species search enables you to search for pests, plants, natural enemies or taxonomic groups. There are four searches available: Diagnostic search, Plants search, Pathway search and Advanced search. Select the tab for the Diagnostic search.
Diagnostic search
The Diagnostic search facility is used for searching for pests and their datasheets by crop, country and/or symptoms.
Select a Country of occurrence and type 'Indonesia'. OK. (You can select parts of Indonesia if you wish.) OK.
From Plant parts & Symptoms, select the Stem tab, then 'external feeding', and OK. Click the View results button.
The result is a list of 20 pests that fit this specification - part way to a diagnosis.
From the list of 20 pest names, double-click Nilaparvata lugens (brown-backed rice plant hopper). Proceed. The data sheet for the rice brown plant hopper appears.
Click on the Picture to display more thumbnails and further options for pictures.
Click on the Distribution Map to show a touch-sensitive map whose spots can be right-clicked for details of the source of the record.
Click the text icon to get lots more text.
From the chapter headings, double-click 'Control'. Enlarge the window and display the IPM approach using the hyperlink.
To demonstrate softlinking, highlight 'IPM' in the second paragraph heading and click Soft link.
Click on the hyperlinked citation for Ooi, 1988' (end of first paragraph) to view the abstract for this reference.
From the abstract of the Ooi, 1988 reference, softlink to 'Malaysia'.
Exploring datasheets further could include creating a Notepad
entry 
for the rice
brown plant hopper.
Or showing its Taxonomic Tree 
.
Or highlighting a piece of text, using 
or CTRL+C to Copy
highlighted text to clipboard. and then inserting it into a Word document.
Text can also be Exported to an .html or .txt file.
Return to the Main Menu using F2. There are several more options to look at, for example:
The Bibliographic search button gives access to more than 100,000 references, more than half of which have abstracts.
The Library contains a selection of full-text documents on aspects of crop protection.
The Pest Risk Analysis button helps you conduct a PRA. Enter a plant commodity, country of origin and importing country to display a list of pests that could be associated with that pathway. Screens are presented to help you assess whether any pests represent a quarantine threat.
Select Economic Impact for data on crop losses due to pests and diseases in 11 major crops.
Contributors includes the list of more than 1000 experts who helped build the CPC
We hope you have found this introduction useful. Please explore the Compendium further (see other training sheets at www.cabicompendium.org/cpc).
Please let us know how we can improve the Crop Protection Compendium.
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