Plant Breeding Methods (CS, HS 541)

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Lecture Outline 36 – INSECT, ARACHNID AND STRESS RESISTANCE

1. Assignment
2. Arthropod resistance (insect resistance)
3. Types of Resistance
4. Gene-for-gene Theory (Flor)
5. Stability of Resistance
6. Advantages of Host Plant Resistance
7. Disadvantages of Host Plant Resistance
8. Problems With Breeding For Arthropod Resistance
9. Non-preference (Plant morphology affects arthropod preference)
10. Antibiosis
11. Tolerance
12. Measurement of Arthropod Resistance
13. Methods of Evaluation of Plant Resistance
14. Selection for Resistance
15. Stress Resistance

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Exercise 9

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