PEAT IDs & EPPO codes

A common use case is adding more information, products or services after the diagnosis. This page shows how.

Use the PEAT ID

Every successful analysis shows you the cause of the problem that the crop in the photo has. The result comes with the common and scientific name and, most importantly, with a PEAT ID.

As taxonomy is in constant motion, disease names change. PEAT IDs do not change.

Every problem has a PEAT ID. So if you want to connect additional information, products or services to a result from the Plantix Vision API, we recommend linking them in your backend with the pair PEAT ID + crop.

Example

The Plantix Vision API returns (shortened):

{
  "crop_health": "unhealthy",
  "crops": ["pepper"],
  "predicted_diagnoses": [
    {
      "common_name": "Chilli Thrips",
      "diagnosis_likelihood": "very_likely",
      "peat_id": 600136,
      "eppo_code": "SCITDO"
    }
  ]
}

You might use peat_id together with crops to look up, in your database, products or information tailor-made for that problem on that crop, and show them to your users.

For example, you might find that products with the formulation Spinosad 45.0% SC are appropriate and legal to use in chilli peppers, and display those to the user.

The PEAT ID

The PEAT ID is our internal identifier (field peat_id in the API). It has 6 digits and identifies the plant problem. Every entry in our disease database has its own PEAT ID.

A PEAT ID belongs to a problem, not to a crop: when a problem affects several crops, it has the same PEAT ID on all of them (for example Aphids = 600002). A few organisms have more than one PEAT ID.

The first digit gives only a rough idea of the category. Some problems belong to a different category than their first digit suggests. For the exact category, use the pathogen_class field in the result.

Optional: EPPO codes

If you already work with EPPO codes, the result also contains an eppo_code. It is an optional, extra way to match a problem with its scientific and common names in other systems.

EPPO codes come from the European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization (EPPO), an intergovernmental organization. They give weeds, pests, diseases and other plant problems a short, fixed name.

Plants (including weeds) have a 5-character code, pests and pathogens a 6-character code. The codes are letters, with digits only in a few cases:

• Codes starting with 1 stand for a group, for example 1APHIG = the genus Aphis.
• Virus codes are filled up with 0, for example TSWV00.
• Problems without an organism, like deficiencies, have their own codes, for example SONIDE = nitrogen deficiency.

You can look up EPPO codes at https://gd.eppo.int/.

Not every problem has an EPPO code (for example Healthy or Bacterial speck and spot of Tomato). That’s why we recommend the PEAT ID as the main identifier.

Find the PEAT ID and EPPO code of every problem in Crop problems covered.