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Agriculture · Q825

Genetics And Plant Breeding

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 825

Q825

Resistance exhibited by adult plants is referred to as

A.
durable resistance
B.
vertical resistance
C.
adult resistance
Answer
D.
None of these

Answer: Option C

Solution

Answer: Option C
Solution:
Resistance exhibited by adult plants is referred to as adult resistance.
Adult plant resistance (APR) is a phenomenon in which disease-resistance genes can confer resistance at the adult stages of the plant but somehow fail to do so at the seedling stages.
Despite the widespread occurrence of APR in various plant diseases, the mechanism underlying this trait remains obscure.