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Recessive resistance to plant viruses.
Advances in virus research - 1 Jan 2009
Truniger V, Aranda M A
Abstract excerpt
About half of the approximately 200 known virus resistance genes in plants are recessively inherited, suggesting that this form of resistance is more common for viruses than for other plant pathogens. The use of such genes is therefore a very important tool in breeding programs to control plant diseases caused by pathogenic viruses. Over the last few years, the detailed analysis of many host/virus combinations...
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