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Genetics of Host-Pathogen Interaction and Breeding for Durable Resistance

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Disease control to achieve stable food production has been one of the challenges to wheat pathologists, geneticists and breeders during the 20th century. An understanding of disease epidemiology, genetic basis of host-pathogen interaction, search for resistance genes, and development of cultivars with built-in disease resistance to a number of important diseases has reduced the occurrence of large-scale epidemics that were common in the first half of the 20th century. Improper use of the major, race-specific type of resistance to control rapidly evolving pathogens (e.g., the rusts of wheat) has led to boom-and-bust cycles that make it necessary to replace cultivars a short time after their release. Durable resistance is based on interaction of minor, additive genes. In case of leaf and yellow rusts of wheat, accumulation of 4–5 slow rusting genes results in a high level of resistance that approaches immunity. This is the type of resistance needed in the 21st century to ensure food security.

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    Ravi P. Singh, S. Rajaram & M. William

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Singh, R.P., Rajaram, S., Saini, R.G., Huerta-Espino, J., William, M. (2004). Genetics of Host-Pathogen Interaction and Breeding for Durable Resistance. In: Jain, H.K., Kharkwal, M.C. (eds) Plant Breeding. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1040-5_7

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