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Predicting durability of a disease resistance gene based on an assessment of the fitness loss and epidemiological consequences of avirulence gene mutation.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 5 Dec 2000
Vera Cruz C M, Bai J, Ona I, Leung H, Nelson R J, Mew T W, Leach J E
Abstract excerpt
Durability of plant disease resistance (R) genes may be predicted if the cost of pathogen adaptation to overcome resistance is understood. Adaptation of the bacterial blight pathogen, Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo), to virulence in rice is the result of the loss of pathogen avirulence gene function, but little is known about its effect on aggressiveness under field conditions. We evaluated the cost in...
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