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"Ong said his role on the project is also to educate the public about the disease, which will help monitor its location, so his team created a website,
http://roserosette.org, as a clearinghouse for information.
"The website also is a portal so that people can take pictures and submit them into the database. A verifier on the team looks at the photo to determine whether the plant depicted has rose rosette," Ong said.
The site is designed for mobile phones or tablets so a person can easily take a picture while looking at the plant, he said.
"When a picture is submitted, the site captures the location and a verifier is notified to make a decision about the image," Ong explained. "Yes, it is rose rosette; no, it is not rose rosette; or we are not sure or we would like to get more information or a sample. Those are the three possible answers."
Verifiers can ask for a physical sample for confirmation, if necessary, he said. All images are maintained in the online database for future reference by variety to help researchers and the public document which have been proven susceptible.
To help people learn what to look for, Ong published a series of factsheets available at
http://bit.ly/roserosettefacts. Several other affected states also have information linked on the rose rosette website."
