Variety mixtures can provide a range of benefits for both the crop and the environment. Their
utility for the suppression of pathogens, especially in small grain crops, is well established …

The evolution of resistance poses an ongoing threat to crop protection. Fungicide resistance
provides a selective advantage under fungicide selection, but resistance-conferring …

Crop pathogens and pests reduce the yield and quality of agricultural production. They
cause substantial economic losses and reduce food security at household, national and …

Wild plants and their associated pathogens are involved in ongoing interactions over
millennia that have been modified by coevolutionary processes to limit the spatial extent and …

Plant disease management faces ever-growing challenges due to:(i) increasing demands
for total, safe and diverse foods to support the booming global population and its improving …

Genetically controlled resistance provides plant breeders with an efficient means of
controlling plant disease, but this approach has been constrained by practical difficulties …

Quantitative resistance (QR) to crop diseases has usually been much more durable than
major-gene, effector-triggered resistance. It has been observed that the effectiveness of …

Double infections of related or unrelated viruses frequently occur in single plants, the viral
agents being inoculated into the host plant simultaneously (co‐infection) or sequentially …

Plants and their pathogens are engaged in continuous evolutionary battles and sustainable
disease management requires novel systems to create environments conducive for short …

An understanding of the evolution of pathogen quantitative traits in response to host
selective pressures is essential for the development of durable management strategies for …