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With the host plant taken to be the only independent variable much attention has been given to alleged safety in polygenic inheritance of resistance. Polygenic resistance, it is supposed, is stable because the pathogen cannot simultaneously overcome many genes. The argument is confused. First, there is little or no evidence for true polygenic resistance. Second, polygenes have been confused with additive variance. Third, there are enough examples of host plants with many resistance genes which even in combinations are ineffective.
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Vanderplank, J.E. (1983). Durable Resistance in Crops: Biometric Analysis of Resistance. In: Lamberti, F., Waller, J.M., Van der Graaff, N.A. (eds) Durable Resistance in Crops. NATO Advanced Science Institutes Series, vol 55. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9305-8_14
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