Disease resistance is often defined as reduction of pathogen growth on or in the plantit denotes less disease development in a genotype than that in the susceptible variety and is a relative. Breeding for disease resistance series developments in plant pathology vol 1 johnson r jellis gj eds 1992 price from 14979 eur available formats ebook information 14979 eur gross isbn 978 94 017 0954 5 immediate ebook download after purchase ebook this title is also available as an ebook you can pay for springer ebooks with visa mastercard american express or paypal . Breeding for disease resistance in wheat has a long and largely successful history the remarkable advance in productivity of wheat in western europe over the past 60 years has been the result of improvements in both agronomy and cultivars silvey 1986 mackay et al 2011. Breeding for disease resistance is a central focus of plant breeding programs as any successful variety must have the complete package of high yield disease resistance agronomic performance and end use quality with the need to accelerate the development of improved varieties genomics assisted breeding is becoming an important tool in breeding programs with marker assisted selection