Durable disease resistance is a key component of global food security, and combining
resistance genes into “pyramids” is an important way to increase durability of resistance. The …

Cotton genetic resources contain diverse economically important traits that can be used
widely in breeding approaches to create of high-yielding elite cultivars with superior fiber …

Plant Diseases: Epidemics and Control provides a description of the methods of
epidemiological analysis based on infection rates and the relation between the amount of …

Disease Resistance in Plants, Second Edition, looks at genetic, epidemiologic, biochemical,
and biometric principles for developing new cultivars possessing genetic resistance to …

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▪ Abstract Novel plant-pathogen combinations occur whenever pathogen or plant species
are introduced to regions outside their native range. Whether a pathogen is able to acquire a …

Publisher Summary This chapter reviews the progress made in developing rice that is
resistant to diseases and insects. Among cereal crops, rice is the host of the largest number …

Written in a highly readable style, making this study readily accessible to both scientists
(plant breeders and those working in related fields) and students, this revised second edition …

Annual pathogenicity surveys of Puccinina graminis f. sp. tritici (Pgt), initiated at the
University of Sydney in 1919, have continued without interruption to the present day. The …

Anticipatory resistance breeding is the process of predicting future pathotypes and
producing resistant germplasm to avert future losses. It is made possible by a national …