Abstract
Biffen (1905), working with yellow rust, provided the first evidence that resistance to a pathogen could be controlled by a single, Mendelian gene. He showed that resistance to yellow rust in Rivet wheat was controlled by one recessive gene.
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Knott, D.R. (1989). Genetic Analysis of Resistance. In: The Wheat Rusts — Breeding for Resistance. Monographs on Theoretical and Applied Genetics, vol 12. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83641-1_5
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