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

Figure 2

Example illustrations of the different kinds of cultivar-strain interaction for \(\nu = 4\): on the left, no infection because the pathogen strain genotype does not overcome the cultivar genotype (the strain does not have a ‘key’ for each resistance ‘lock’ on the cultivar, and so the resistance lock stays locked); in the middle, infection and high pathogen growth rate, because the pathogen has the minimum number of genes needed to overcome the cultivar’s resistance genes (only the necessary keys for the resistance locks); on the right, infection and lower pathogen growth rate, because the pathogen has more than the minimum number of genes needed to overcome the cultivar’s resistance genes (more than just the necessary keys for the resistance locks).

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