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The review summarizes the present situation of potato breeding for disease resistance and outlines selected examples where molecular biology can provide new tools to follow the inheritance of resistance genes, or offer new solutions for the development of artificial genes effective against diseases and pests. The following arguments are treated: resistance to viruses and viroids; late blight and other relevant parasitic fungi; soft rot; bacterial wilt; potato cyst eelwormGlobodera rostochiensis andG. pallida.
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Uhrig, H., Gebhardt, C., Tacke, E. et al. Recent advances in breeding potatoes for disease resistance. Netherlands Journal of Plant Pathology 98 (Suppl 2), 193–210 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01974486
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