“…In this context, SADs are useful tools to assess the severity of plant disease because raters are able to estimate it with high accuracy and reliability. Several studies demonstrated that the use of SADs increased the accuracy, precision and reliability of the assessments of several diseases, such as blast (Rios, Debona, Duarte, & Rodrigues, 2013) and spot blotch (Domiciano, Duarte, Moreira, & Rodrigues, 2014) in wheat, Glomerella leaf spot in apple (Moreira, Duarte, & May‐De Mio, 2019), target spot in cotton (Fantin, Braga, Canteri, Dias, & Borges, 2018), frogeye leaf spot (Debona et al., 2015) and rust in soybean (Godoy, Koga, & Canteri, 2006), bacterial spot in tomato (Duan, Zhao, Wang, & Yang, 2015), rust in coffee (Capucho et al., 2011), leaf blight in eggplant (Correia et al., 2017) and bacterial blight in passion fruit (Monzani et al., 2018).…”