Chris,
What exactly do you mean by rust susceptibility scores? The way I thought the plants used to be listed for "rust susceptibility" was by individuals reporting how the plant performed in their gardens. It was either "Shows Resistance" or "Shows Susceptibility". I think that the value fluctuated as different people reported how it performed in their particular garden location.I don't think that is actually the case anymore just looking at "Shows Susceptibility" compared to decimal scores. I was told once the plant showed rust that meant it was susceptible. It appears to me that anything now showing to be "rust resistant" is anything with a decimal rating of 2.5 or below and any thing above that is rated as "Shows Susceptibility". I did not check every single plant but I did check enough that it seemed to be the case, I found no exceptions to that out of about 50 or so I checked. But if your are referring to the rust decimal scores then those are done by University Studies in most cases if not all from what I understand, so there are no reviews or updating done by members here, and they are not based on anything in members gardens but are the results of the plants studied over a limited period of time (usually short period) in university studies.
I actually pulled up the results for all the decimal scores from 1.0, 1.1, 1.2 etc. up through 2.5. The results showed some ratings with as few as 2 entries, some with well under 10 entries. The most were 216 plants with a 1.0 rating, 64 with a 1.3 rating, 49 with a 1.7 rating and 75 with a 2.0 rating and 25 with a 2.3 rating. Once I hit the 2.5 rating it seemed to me all of the "Susceptible" ratings changed to "Shows Susceptibility" from the 2.4 ratings and below which all seemed to be "Shows Resistance".
So my answer based on what I see is that there is no review or reporting of rust scores by members anymore, but maybe someone is aware of something I don't see looking at the data I saw.
