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Host-Pathogen Interactions in Plant Disease (Hardcover)
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Host-Pathogen Interactions in Plant Disease (Hardcover)
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This book describes the genetics, biochemistry, and epidemiology of
host-pathogen interactions in plant disease, especially as they
concern the breeding of crops for disease resistance. It analyzes a
wealth of information that has not previously been recorded in
other books or reviews. Some of it stems from basic surveys of
disease in the field. The analysis of these surveys not only
explains a great deal about host-pathogen interactions that was
heretofore obscure, but also indicates directions for future
research. Other data, from original papers, have now been
coordinated for the first time and organized in a way that suggests
new areas of research. The book contains more than fifty new tables
that integrate data and relate them to general principles of
host-pathogen interactions.
For plant pathologists and plant breeders concerned with the
control of plant disease, the book shows how to manipulate the host
and, indirectly, the pathogen in order to control disease. It
analyzes records of resistance against disease that time has shown
to be stable in an effort to determine what has kept this
resistance stable. It also analyzes the structure of virulence in
populations of a pathogen, and demonstrates how virulence can be
deliberately restricted. The author updates information on the
gene-for-gene hypothesis and discusses the numerical and biological
implications of the hypothesis. He analyzes the structure of
epidemics based on three fundamental variables: the initial
inoculum, the progeny/parent ratio of the pathogen, and the latent
period. The author concentrates on the progeny/parent ratio - a
subject not hitherto probed in detail in the literature - and shows
how to determine the type of epidemic that can occur.
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