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From: Rotating and stacking genes can improve crop resistance durability while potentially selecting highly virulent pathogen strains

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The modelled annual cycle of how the density of different pathogen strains changes over a number of years, as they interact with different resistant cultivars planted in a field. First, the total number of spores released is simulated independently for each strain i. Second, the total number of infections is calculated, with limitations due to space or the number of possible infection sites. Third, this total number of infections is apportioned between the different strains, while accounting for any fitness penalties and/or cultivar resistance. Fourth, sexual recombination (mating) is simulated. The symbol \(N_i\) represents the number of a given strain i, whereas N with the i missing means the total for all strains.

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