vertical resistance

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plant diseases

  • blight
    In plant disease: Variable resistance

    …resistance to plant diseases are vertical (specific) and horizontal (nonspecific). A plant variety that exhibits a high degree of resistance to a single race, or strain, of a pathogen is said to be vertically resistant; this ability usually is controlled by one or a few plant genes. Horizontal resistance, on…

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