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Keywords: host plant resistance to plant pathogens, early work, wilt Fusarium oxysporum f. vasinfectum, expression of resistance, tolerance, true tolerance is difficult to demonstrate experimentally, especially root rots, vascular wilts, and virus mosaics where quantification of the pathogen in the host is difficult, pathogen variability, resistance changes in time and rarely is permanent due to the development of resistant races, general vs. race-specific resistance, horizontal and vertical resistance, genetics of resistance, gene-environment interactions, disease development depends on the host, the pathogen

and the environment, aspects of the environment are temperature, soil type, fertilizers, date of planting, field resistance, advantages and disadvantages of resistance as a control measure, plant breeding accomplishments, list of major crops where resistance to infectious diseases has been found, future for disease resistance