Disease Resistance in Plants

Content: 
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Preface, Pages xi-xii
Preface to the First Edition, Pages xiii-xiv
1 - Introduction, Pages 1-4
2 - Unspecific Resistance, Pages 5-12
3 - Host Plants: Phenotypic Variation and Gene Numbers, Pages 13-27
4 - The Pathogen: Epistasis and Virulence, Pages 28-38
5 - Adaptation of the Pathogen to the Host: Wheat Stem Rust in Australia, Pages 39-48
6 - Mutation in the Pathogen from Avirulence to Virulence, Pages 49-56
7 - Horizontal and Vertical Resistance, Pages 57-81
8 - Remnants of Resistance, Pages 82-91
9 - Protein Polymorphism and Vertical Resistance, Pages 92-98
10 - Genes for Susceptibility, Pages 99-106
11 - Sink-Induced Loss of Resistance, Pages 107-116
12 - High-Sugar Disease Processes and Biotrophy, Pages 117-121
13 - Epidemiological Effects of Vertical Resistance, Pages 122-145
14 - Epidemiological Effects of Horizontal Resistance, Pages 146-153
15 - Slow Rusting of Cereal Crops, Pages 154-161
16 - Resistance against Endemic Disease, Pages 162-170
17 - Heterogeneous Host Populations and the Accumulation of Resistance Genes, Pages 171-175
Bibliography, Pages 177-190
Index, Pages 191-194