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Host Plant Resistance to Insects in Vegetable Crops
Host plant resistance is an effective approach to manage insect pests in vegetable crops. This approach involves the use of plant traits that deter...
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Host Plant Resistance to Insect Pests in Wheat
Host plant resistance offers an excellent solution to pest problems, which reduces pesticide usage and environmental pollution. Host plant resistance...
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Host Plant Resistance to Insects in Pulse Crops
Pulses are important sources of protein, dietary fiber, vitamins, and minerals for human nutrition and are widely cultivated in many countries around...
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Host Plant Resistance to Insect Pests in Maize
Maize, a potential global crop is attacked by a wide array of insect pests. Among them, spotted stem borer, pink stem borer, fall armyworm, and shoot...
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Host Plant Resistance to Insects in Cotton
Across the globe, cotton production is limited by endemic and introduced insect pests. The incorporation of host plant resistance (HPR), defined as...
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Seed Endophytes and Their Roles in Host Plant Stress Resistance
Seed endophytes are microorganisms that exist in the internal tissues of seeds and do not cause any obvious tissue damage or adverse effects on the...
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High-Throughput Phenoty** and Its Importance in Host Plant Resistance
Plant phenoty** has been the topic of research for several decades across the globe, which has made significant contributions to the advancements...
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Plant Resistance to Insects in Major Field Crops
This edited book is a comprehensive collection of information on host plant resistance to insects in major field crops. The focus of the book is to...
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Current Status of Host Plant Resistance to Insects in Rice and Future Perspectives
Rice is grown in diverse ecologies, and the crop is attacked by large number of insect pests of which planthoppers, stem borers, leaf folders and...
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Application of CRISPR for Plant-Mediated Resistance
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) and associated protein 9 (CRISPR-Cas9) have emerged as an efficient genome editing...
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Striga as a Constraint to Cereal Production in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Role of Host Plant Resistance
This chapter provides an overview on the biology of the parasitic weeds of the genus Striga, specifically S. asiatica and S. hermonthica, and their...
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Host Plant Resistance
In agricultural crop production, the yield loss due to insect pest infestations is causing a major concern. Though the chemical method of pest...
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Biocontrol of Bacterial Wilt Biotic Stress in Tomato Plants by Successful Host Root Colonization and Inducing Host Resistance
Plant treatments with biocontrol agents to deal with biotic stress are widely reported, but the information regarding detailed action mechanisms of...
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Host Resistance, Current Status, and Emerging Advances
Plant parasitic nematodes are among the most important biotic constraints with potential for causing crop yield losses of 8–15% across a wide range...
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Host Plant Resistance to Insect Pests in Horticultural Crops
One of the major elements in any Integrated Pest management (IPM) programme is the use of resistant cultivars to insect pests. Host plant resistance...
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Spatial and temporal variability in the structure of the multiple-herbivore community of horsenettle, and evidence for evolutionary responses in host-plant resistance
The geographic mosaic model of plant–herbivore coevolution asserts that interactions between a plant species and an herbivore species vary in...
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An overview of plant resistance to plant-pathogenic bacteria
In an environment rich in potentially harmful plant-pathogenic bacteria, plants must deploy a complex set of defensive responses to prevent...
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Different responses of herbivore abundance to plant genotypic diversity depending on herbivore host specificity
Key messageThe response of herbivore abundance to birch genotypic diversity varies depending on the host specificity of the herbivores. Specialist,...
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Plant genes related to Phytophthora pathogens resistance
Plants have evolved a multilayered and sophisticated immune system to establish effective resistance to a variety of pathogens. Phytophthora species...
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Host plant resistance for fall armyworm management in maize: relevance, status and prospects in Africa and Asia
Key messageSustainable control of fall armyworm (FAW) requires implementation of effective integrated pest management (IPM) strategies, with host...
