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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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Within-Host Mathematical Models of Antibiotic Resistance
Mathematical models have been used to study the spread of infectious diseases from person to person. More recently studies are develo** within-host...
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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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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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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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A cell-free strategy for host-specific profiling of intracellular antibiotic sensitivity and resistance
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a pandemic spread across multiple infectious disease-causing microbes. To provide a host-specific tool to study...
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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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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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Burning questions for fire blight research. II. Critical next steps in disease management and in host resistance breeding of apple and pear
Fire blight is a devastating disease of apple and pear worldwide. One reason fire blight is so difficult to manage is because of the lack of...
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Antibiotic Resistance Protocols
This fully updated edition explores current techniques for research into antibiotic resistance. The book begins with how samples are collected,...
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Fusarium wilt in banana: unraveling molecular aspects of host–pathogen interaction and resistance mechanism
Bananas and plantains (Musa spp.) are an important socio-economic fruit crop grown worldwide. Their production across the regions where they are...
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Stacking host resistance genes to control Globodera pallida populations with different virulence
Potato Cyst Nematodes (PCN) are a globally important and economically extremely damaging potato pest. Chemical control has limited impact and cannot...
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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 Resistance
Genetical and molecular mechanisms of host resistance in the form of qualitative and quantitative genes have been expressed against P. brassicae in...
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Fitness costs associated with spinetoram resistance in Spodoptera frugiperda is driven by host plants
Insecticide resistance is usually associated with fitness costs. The magnitude of the fitness costs is affected by environmental and ecological...
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Sexual recombination and temporal gene flow maintain host resistance and genetic diversity
Infectious disease can threaten host populations. Hosts can rapidly evolve resistance during epidemics, with this evolution often modulated by...
