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Resistance in Populations

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Mechanisms of Resistance to Plant Diseases

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Knowledge of resistance at the molecular, cellular and organismal level is a basis for understanding resistance at the population level, but does not completely explain resistance at the population level. Other processes or mechanisms operate at the population level increasing or decreasing the significance of resistance. This chapter deals with the various mechanisms operating at the population level influencing host — pathogen interactions. The role of the mechanism of resistance is clarified considering the set of mechanisms determining host — pathogen interactions at the population level.

Populations and their attributes are described in general terms to allow development of an understanding of what is meant by the phenomenon “population”. Subsequently, escape, avoidance, and the paired effects of predisposition and immunisation are described as mechanisms operating before resistance comes into play. Compensation and tolerance are described as mechanisms operating after resistance and relevant to the phenomena of selection and fitness, which are treated subsequently.

Some thoughts about management of resistance in crops are developed by considering all the mechanisms involved in host — pathogen interactions at the population level, and by contrasting wild and crop pathosystems.

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  1. Department of Biology, University of Fribourg, 3, rue Albert-Gockel, 1700, Fribourg, Switzerland

    J. Frantzen

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  1. RWTH, Aachen, Germany

    A. J. Slusarenko

  2. Society for General Microbiology, Reading, UK

    R. S. S. Fraser (Honorary Visiting Professor) (Honorary Visiting Professor)

  3. Utrecht University, The Netherlands

    L. C. van Loon

  4. University of Manchester, UK

    R. S. S. Fraser (Honorary Visiting Professor) (Honorary Visiting Professor)

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Frantzen, J. (2000). Resistance in Populations. In: Slusarenko, A.J., Fraser, R.S.S., van Loon, L.C. (eds) Mechanisms of Resistance to Plant Diseases. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3937-3_6

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