The evolution of plant pathogens in response to host resistance: factors affecting the gain from deployment of qualitative and quantitative resistance.

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Disease resistance genes are valuable natural resources which should be deployed in a way which maximises the gain to crop productivity before they lose efficacy. Here we present a general epidemiological model for plant diseases, formulated to study the evolution of phenotypic traits of plant pathogens in response to host resistance. The model was used to analyse how the characteristics of the disease...

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