“…Optimization models, in which a host plant cropping is alternated with either an off-season, a non-host cropping or a poor host, exist in the mathematical modelling literature. Van den Berg et al [28,29], for instance, rely on an extended Ricker model to optimize potato yield losses due to the potato cyst nematode by rotating different potato cultivars. Taylor and Rodrìguez-Kábana optimize the economical yield of peanut crops by rotating peanuts (good host) and cotton (bad host) in order to control the peanut rootknot nematode Meloidogyne arenaria [30].…”