Abstract
Resistance is a relative term used to describe the ability of a plant to prevent, restrict, or retard the penetration and development of pathogens in host tissue. The biochemical events involved with resistance are invariably invoked in “susceptible” as well as in resistant plants in response to transient biotrophs, e.g., Verticillium and Fusarium wilt fungi. Thus, from a biochemical perspective susceptible plants also resist infection, but the speed or intensity of the response is inadequate, and the pathogen is able to progressively colonize the plant. Therefore, the degree of resistance depends on the speed and intensity of the defensive response of the host relative to the speed of infection by the pathogen (Mace 1978).
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Mace, M.E. (1989). Secondary Metabolites Produced in Resistant and Susceptible Host Plants in Response to Fungal Vascular Infection. In: Tjamos, E.C., Beckman, C.H. (eds) Vascular Wilt Diseases of Plants. NATO ASI Series, vol 28. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73166-2_12
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