Because of the increase of salinity at the surface, only salt resistant plants can survive in most of the area.

The difference in disease incidence between resistant and susceptible plants is attributed to nutritional conditions inside the body.

In the 1950s disease resistant plants were developed, and production increased rapidly.

The memorial is surrounded by a garden of fire resistant native plants.

First is to choose deer resistant plants.

But while hrp proteins are essential for penetrating a susceptible host, they can have a very different effect on a resistant plant.

Finally, he said, more work was being done on the plant to make it "more earthquake resistant."

For highly resistant plants, allocating resources to tolerance would not be selectively favored as the plant received minimal damage in the first place.

The technology also has been applied to agriculture, in the development of plants resistant to disease and having other desirable characteristics.

Much work is now being done with hybrids to produce more disease resistant plants for both agricultural and horticultural crops.