Epidemiology in Relation to Testing for Resistance to Diseases and Insects

Testing for resistance to diseases or insects makes indispensable a familiarity with the disease or insect under consideration. The manipulation of test plant and pathogenic organism in order to provide a useful rating or index of relative resistance or susceptibility is the aim of testing.


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Author(s): Robert F. Patton

Publication: Tree Improvement and Genetics - Lake States Forest Tree Improvement Conference - 1955