Agricultural officers and farmers are often in need of making identifications or diagnoses, to enable good management decisions, such as what herbicide or pesticide to use, or what nutrient to add to their fields. With Lucid, you can produce the tools to help with this decision-making. Lucid identification keys have already been created for thrips and mites , apple cultivars, urban weeds, crop nematodes, plant pathogens and cotton insects.
Diagnostic keys are well developed for rice and sweet potato.
Lucid is an ideal tool for creating interactive diagnostic systems. Your knowledge of complaints, symptoms and probable diagnoses can be neatly captured by Lucid and delivered to your audience by CD or over the Internet. The Key to Diagnosis of Oral Ulceration is a perfect example of what can be achieved with Lucid in medical science. Lucid Professional is a powerful system for creating comprehensive interactive keys to any group of organisms. Lucid keys are easy to use enable identification from partial material allow for mistakes and misinterpretations can be illustrated with multimedia, including HTML can be distributed on the Internet Numerous Lucid taxonomic keys have been developed and published - click on Lucid Keys in the main menu to see what is available.