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Agriculture · Q717

Plant Pathology

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 717

Q717

Race specific resistance called

A.
Vertical resistance
Answer
B.
Horizontal resistance
C.
Adult plant resistance
D.
Apparent resistance

Answer: Option A

Solution

Answer: Option A
Solution:
Race-specific resistance is called Vertical resistance.
Race-specific or vertical resistance implies resistance to some pathogen isolates and not to others and is relatively simply inherited.
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.