Yield penalties of disease resistance in crops

Curr Opin Plant Biol. 2002 Aug;5(4):339-44. doi: 10.1016/s1369-5266(02)00270-4.

Abstract

Recently, there have been rapid developments in understanding the costs of disease and pest resistance in model plants and their ecological relevance in wild plants. In crop plants, however, much (although not all) of our current understanding of costs of resistance must be inferred from research on model species. To determine the true costs of resistance in crops and the likely benefit of resistance genes in new cultivars, however, other aspects of the plant's phenotype must be studied alongside resistance.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Breeding / economics
  • Cost-Benefit Analysis / methods
  • Crops, Agricultural / genetics*
  • Crops, Agricultural / microbiology
  • Immunity, Innate / genetics
  • Phenotype
  • Plant Diseases / economics
  • Plant Diseases / genetics*
  • Plant Diseases / microbiology
  • Plant Proteins / genetics
  • Plant Proteins / physiology

Substances

  • MLO protein, Hordeum vulgare
  • Plant Proteins