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Crops are made resistant to pathogens such as wheat stem rust, Asian soybean rust and potato late blight by methods to access the pool of resistance genes present in related plants.

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Figure 1: Strategies to clone R genes for elite crops.

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Bent, A. Resistance from relatives. Nat Biotechnol 34, 620–621 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3591

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