Question

What do you mean by breeding for disease resistance?

Answer 1

Disease resistance is often defined as reduction of pathogen growth on or in the plant.It denotes less disease development in a genotype than that in the susceptible variety and is a relative attribute.Generally, the rate of reproduction is considerably reduced which limits the spread of disease. Plants are almost always resistant to certain pathogens but susceptible to other pathogens; resistance is usually pathogen species-specific or pathogen strain-specific.