Fraser, R.S.S. (1990) The Genetics of Resistance to Plant Viruses. Annual Review of Phytopathology, 28. pp. 179-200.
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Virus diseases cause serious losses of yield and quality in many crop species. Control mechanisms include use of virus-free seed or vegetative propagules, prevention of infection by breaks in cropping or control of weed hosts of the virus, prevention of transmission by vectors, and breeding for resistance (39). The last of these is undoubtedly the most important. However, studies of host resistance are interesting also because of the more fundamental questions they address; how plants and viruses interact, and how the interactions evolve. Historically, the majority of studies of the genetics of host-pathogen interactions have dealt with the fungal and bacterial pathogens of plants. Indeed, the unraveling of the complex gene-for-gene interactions between the loci for resistance/susceptibility in the plant and matching virulence1 avirulence in their microbial pathogens (33, 79) must rank as one of the triumphs of classical genetics. A major feature of research on interactions between plants and microbial pathogens has been the attempt to develop unifying theories, based mainly on genetic studies, that make predictions about mechanisms and coevolution (for example, see 32, 103, lW), A common feature of most of the models is that resistance and avirulence are dominant to susceptibility and virulence, respectively, although exceptions....
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Author Affiliation: | AFRC Institute of Horticultural Research, Worthing Road, Littlehampton, West Sussex BN 17 6LP, United Kingdom |
| Subjects: | Plant Protection Crop Improvement |
| Divisions: | General |
| Depositing User: | Mr. SanatKumar Behera |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Oct 2013 11:08 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Oct 2013 11:08 |
| Official URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev.py.28.090190.001... |
| URI: | http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/12017 |
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