Abstract:The study was conducted to investigate the dynamic changes in production of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum apothecium in the field of spring oilseed rape in the northeast part of China. A chessboard-sampling method was used to count the apothecium number in 1 m2 of each sampling site in the field. The results showed that the apothecium of the pathogen appears in the middle of June. In 1997, from June to August, there were three peaks of the apothecium occurrence, June 29, July 8 and July 26 to August 2. In 1998, there were two peaks, June 24 and July 9. In 2003, there were three peaks, June 30, July 10 to 25 and August 5. The result of stepwise regression analysis and path analysis showed the relative humility (RH) and the rain precipitation in the three days and the RH and the precipitation in the ten days were the key factors affecting the apothecium number. The 8 factors stepwise regression equation and BP Artificial Neural Network (ANN) model of the disease were established and the predicted results were good with the fitting correlation coefficient 0.905 and 0.944 respectively.