A Personal Perspective of the Last 40 Years of Plant Pathology: Emerging Themes, Paradigm Shifts and Future Promise

Annual Plant Reviews, Molecular Aspects of Plant Disease Resistance

Volumn 34, Issue , 2009, Pages 1-15

  Heath, Michele C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Disease resistance; Host resistance; Hypersensitive response; Non host resistance; Rene for gene hypothesis; Resistance genes

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350080976     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444301441.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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