The global dynamics and optimal control of a plant epidemic model

Hong Zhang, Mingming Su, Paul Georgescu

Abstract


This paper proposes and investigates a model for the spread of an infection into a plant population, considering the effects of both primary and secondary infections. We determine the basic reproduction number of the plant pathogens R0 and prove that if R0 > 1, then the positive equilibrium is globally stable, provided that several auxiliary inequalities, determined using the geometric approach of Li and Muldowney [23], hold. Also, we find a necessary condition for the existence of optimal controls by applying Pontryagin’s Minimum Principle. Finally, a numerical example is given to illustrate the applicability of our analytical findings.

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Published: 2015-10-10

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Hong Zhang, Mingming Su, Paul Georgescu, The global dynamics and optimal control of a plant epidemic model, Commun. Math. Biol. Neurosci., 2015 (2015), Article ID 32

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