Pathogen / pest virulence, abundance and geographic range,
host plant resistance or compatibility, and environmental conditions all influence disease severity, yield and quality.
The windblown spores of Puccinia can travel great distances and quickly adapt to
host plant resistance.
Host plant resistance: Natural defenses plants evolved to reduce the impact of herbivores.
Not exact matches
The advent of rice varieties bearing genes with
resistance to the disease has changed the perception about the disease: the incorporation of
host -
plant resistance genes in rice varieties, their adoption and deployment in the world's main rice - producing environments is probably one of the most significant evidences of the role of
plant pathology in agricultural development.
«Understanding how the nematode modulates its
host is going to help us exploit new technologies to engineer
plants with enhanced
resistance to this terribly devastating pathogen,» Mitchum said.
The focus is on molecular microbiology and virology, and includes topics such as genomics, the gamut of
plant and animal
host - pathogen interactions,
host immune responses, characterization and evolution of virulence determinants, cell cycle and differentiation, symbiosis in
plant and animal associations, environmental microbiology, biodiversity and evolution, population dynamics, sex and mutagenesis, antibiotic
resistance and production, drug and vaccine targets, as well as aspects of prion diseases and of fungal and protozoan biology.
Of the various strategies tried, enhancing
host -
plant resistance is considered one of the important approaches to tackle this disease.
The advent of rice varieties bearing genes with
resistance to the disease has changed the perception about the disease: the incorporation of
host -
plant resistance genes in rice varieties, their adoption and deployment in the world's main rice - producing environments is probably one of the most significant evidences of the role of
plant pathology in agricultural development.