Resistance and resistance breeding for organic farming

De Milliano, W,.A.J., Lammerts van Bueren, E.T., Voorrips, R.E., and Myers, J.R. 2015.Resistance and resistance breeding for organic farming. In: Plant Diseases and Their Management in Organic Agriculture. Eds. Finckh, M.R., van Bruggen, A.H.C., Tamm, L.: 175-187.

 

Table of contents

4.5.1 Types of resistance of interest in organic farming

4.5.1.1 Resistance versus tolerance: an often confused issue.

4.6.1.2 Host-pathogen co-evolution and the instability of resistance.

4.5.1.3 Assessing the genetic and ecological risks that pathogens will overcome a resistance.

4.5.1.4 Choice of resistance types for highest durability of resistance.

  • How to reduce the risk of resistance breakdown?
  • Root diseases
  • Foliar and reproductive organ diseases
  • The case of recessive qualitative resistance

4.5.2 Methods to breed for disease resistance in organic crops

4.5.2.1 Genetic resources for resistance

4.5.2.2 Methods for introgression

4.5.2.3 Methodological restrictions in organic breeding

  • Embryo rescue
  • Influencing the plant sex
  • Cytoplasmic male sterility (cms)
  • Dihaploid technology

4.5.2.4 Selection for resistance at plant and cell level (phenotypic selection) 21

4.5.2.5 Genotypic selection for resistance at the molecular level 23

4.5.2.6 Breeding for inducibility of resistance?. 24

4.5.3 Concluding remarks

4.5.4 References

 

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