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Rotating and stacking genes can improve crop resistance durability while potentially selecting highly virulent pathogen strains.
Scientific reports - 12 Nov 2020
Crété Rémi, Pires Rodrigo Neto, Barbetti Martin J, Renton Michael
Abstract excerpt
Rotating crop cultivars with different resistance genes could slow the evolution of virulent strains of fungal pathogens, but could also produce highly virulent pathogen strains. We present a new model that links polycyclic pathogen epidemiology and population genetics in order to predict how different strategies of rotating cultivars with different resistances will affect the evolution of pathogen virulence and...
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