Molecular Biology of Plant Pathogenesis and Crop Disease Resistance

Plant diseases caused by microbial pathogens remain one of the greatest challenges to global food security, threatening yield, quality, and sustainability of major crops. The shift from wild plants to high-yielding cultivars over centuries, while boosting productivity, inadvertently reduced natural resistance and exposed agriculture to devastating epidemics of wheat, rice, potato, and grapevine diseases. These events underscored the critical importance of developing durable resistance in crops

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