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peer-reviewed research article

Genetic disease resistance

authors

David G. Gilchrist, U.C., Davis
Noel T. Keen, U.C., Riverside.

publication information

California Agriculture 36(8):31-32. DOI: 10.3733/ca.v036n08p31. August 1982.

abstract

Not available – first paragraph follows:

The most widely used plant disease control method has been the incorporation of single, usually dominant, genes for disease resistance into cultivated plants. In some cases, disease control also has been accomplished by withdrawal from plants of certain dominant alleles conferring vulnerability to attack by pathogens that produce specific toxins. By either approach, genetic resistance affords the only practical control strategy in most major crops.

author affiliations

David G. Gilchrist, Associate Professor, Plant Pathology, U.C., Davis; Noel T. Keen, Professor, Plant Pathology, U.C., Riverside.


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