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NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS
Volume 19, Issue 1, Pages 21-33Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nrg.2017.82
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- United States National Science Foundation [IOS-1127076]
- Direct For Biological Sciences [1127076] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Plant diseases are responsible for substantial crop losses each year and pose a threat to global food security and agricultural sustainability. Improving crop resistance to pathogens through breeding is an environmentally sound method for managing disease and minimizing these losses. However, it is challenging to breed varieties with resistance that is effective, stable and broad-spectrum. Recent advances in genetic and genomic technologies have contributed to a better understanding of the complexity of host-pathogen interactions and have identified some of the genes and mechanisms that underlie resistance. This new knowledge is benefiting crop improvement through better-informed breeding strategies that utilize diverse forms of resistance at different scales, from the genome of a single plant to the plant varieties deployed across a region.
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