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The economic importance of the rust disease of wheat is without question. The rusts are major historical diseases of wheat and developing genetic resistance to them has been an objective of plant breeding programs since the turn of this century (e.g., Howard and Howard, 1909; Lupton, 1987; Macindoe and Brown, 1968).1 Periodic rust epidemics were common in most decades of this century, although genetic manipulation of resistance genes over the last 40 years has resulted in more stable patterns of resistance (Singh and Dubin, 1997). Genetic resistance, rather than use of fungicides, remains the principal means of controlling the wheat rusts. This is especially true in wheat-producing countries of the developing world, where the costs of controlling disease outbreaks are relatively high.
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Smale, M., Singh, R.P. (1998). The Economic Impact of Diversifying the Genetic Resistance to Leaf Rust Disease in Modern Bread Wheats. In: Smale, M. (eds) Farmers Gene Banks and Crop Breeding: Economic Analyses of Diversity in Wheat Maize and Rice. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0011-0_11
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