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Disease Resistance

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Brassica

Part of the book series: Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry ((AGRICULTURE,volume 54))

Abstract

In the natural environment, plants have evolved mechanisms to perceive and respond effectively to a vast range of biotic stresses. A plant’s survival depends on efficient recognition of microbial and invertebrate pathogens and the timely activation of the local and systemic defence machinery. Unlike multicellular animals, plants lack a circulatory system for surveillance and destruction of foreign material. However, they possess a functionally equivalent recognition system of innate immunity in the form of a basal resistance machinery and a repertoire of various (more or less) pathogen-specific resistance genes.

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