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The Absence of Active Defense Mechanisms in Compatible Host-Pathogen Interactions

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Active Defense Mechanisms in Plants

Part of the book series: NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series ((NSSA,volume 37))

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By definition, a susceptible plant is one that cannot successfully defend itself against pathogen attack. Such a situation is relatively rare, and anyone plant species is commonly susceptible to infection by only a few of the thousands of micro-organisms known to cause disease in higher plants. Nevertheless, susceptibility to only one pathogen is sufficient to cause unacceptable yield losses in a commercial crop, and it is this that plant pathologists are ultimately trying to prevent. Thus it is important to know why defense mechanisms which apparently confer resistance of a plant towards one plant pathogen seem unable to control infection by another.

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Heath, M.C. (1982). The Absence of Active Defense Mechanisms in Compatible Host-Pathogen Interactions. In: Wood, R.K.S. (eds) Active Defense Mechanisms in Plants. NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series, vol 37. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8309-7_8

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