Open AccessFocus: Plant Interactions with Bacterial Pathogens
Author(s) -
Martha C. Hawes,
Pamela C. Ronald
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
plant physiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.554
H-Index - 312
eISSN - 1532-2548
pISSN - 0032-0889
DOI - 10.1104/pp.109.900297
Subject(s) - biology , plant disease , microbiology and biotechnology , focus (optics) , crop , plant disease resistance , disease , gene , agronomy , genetics , medicine , physics , optics , pathology
The incorporation of resistance genes into agronomically important crop plants is the most economically effective method for controlling plant disease. This biological disease control strategy is heritable and, therefore, inexpensive and permanently available once introduced ([Keen et al., 1993][1
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