Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Unspecific resistance. 3. Host plants phenotypic variation and gene numbers. 4. The pathogen epistasis and virulence. 5. Adaptation of the pathogen to the host: wheat stem rust in Australia. 6. Mutation in the pahogen from avirulence to virulence. 7. Horizontal and vertical resistance. 8. Remnants of resistance. 9. Protein polymorphism and vertical resistance. 10. Genes for susceptibility. 11. Sink induced loss of resistance. 12. High sugar disease processes and biotrophy. 13. Epidemiological effects of vertical resistance. 14. Epidemiological effects of horizontal resistance. 15. Slow rusting of cereal crops. 16. Resistance against endemic disease. 17. Heterogeneous host populations and the accumulation of resistance genes. Bibliography. Index.
