| DEFINITION |
"An assay to determine the resistance exhibited by a plant or a group of plants (population) in response to the disease caused by a viral pathogen infection as compared to the susceptible and/or the reference plants of the same species." [Gramene:pankaj_jaiswal, IRRI:SES] |
| XREF |
WTO:0000363WTO:0000274 |
| COMMENT |
It represents the damage done by the diease and/or the viral pathogen to the plant. The damage is a direct measure of resistance to the particular viral strain causing the diease. |
| SYNONYM |
None |
| IS_A |
WTO:0000130 ! diseaseTO:0000242 ! microbial damage resistanceTO:0000112 ! disease resistanceWTO:0000246 ! pathogen resistance |
| PUBMED |
PUBMED |