genetic resistance

Management strategies include developing a vaccine and improving genetic resistance to the disease.

The key to overcome the threat is genetic resistance found in certain wheat varieties.

Often, the plant may be able to resist the pathogen, even though it has no genetic resistance to same.

The only known defense to TR4 is genetic resistance.

That same fierce genetic resistance made her resistant to the medical stasis field, as well.

Two years later the Russian wheat crop was halved for want of genetic resistance.

Friend virus models showed valuable information regarding genetic resistance to retroviral disease.

Garter snakes are the most common, and some species have developed a genetic resistance to tetrodotoxin.

However, a small number of trees (fewer than 5%) in most populations harbor genetic resistance to blister rust.

The Irish potato famine was caused by a plant disease that raced through crops containing no genetic resistance.

The disease is controlled mainly through genetic resistance, chemical control, crop rotation, and strategic timing of planting.

Weeds and insects develop genetic resistance to farm chemicals, often forcing farmers to use ever greater amounts to achieve the same effect.

Some plants already possess genetic resistance to attacks by insect pests while others resist certain fungal diseases.

Population in these valleys was historically limited by malaria and mainly of the Tharu ethnic group that has genetic resistance.

Strawberry breeding improves genetic resistance to verticillium wilt.

To investigate whether the long-tailed birds had some sort of genetic resistance to the mites the biologist decided to follow the swallows through several generations.

In an agricultural setting, the pathogen can be controlled using chemical methods, genetic resistance, and careful farming methods.

Genetic resistance to reniform nematode has not been found in pineapple and cotton [3, 4].

He joined its faculty in 1919, when he first explored genetic resistance to plant disease while working with cabbages, a major crop in the state.

There is also an association with polygyny which may be due to higher pathogen load making selecting males with a high genetic resistance increasingly important.

Genetic resistance to myxomatosis was observed soon after the first release and most rabbits acquired partial immunity in the first two decades.

The fungus has been able to establish resistance to both chemical treatments and genetic resistance in some types of rice developed by plant breeders.

The geneticist said potato researchers were particularly eager to introduce genetic resistance to bacterial diseases, because such resistance is rare among wild species.

Europeans were dangerous to associate with, as infectious diseases to which Europeans had some genetic resistance, were fatal to many Aboriginal people.

The virus infects adult immunocompetent mice and is a well-established model for studying genetic resistance to infection by an immunosuppressive retrovirus.