The efforts made to increase cereal production have induced a concomitant increase in the actual and potential losses from cereal diseases. The force of the evolutionary direction exerted on the major pathogens has frustrated many attempts to breed for stable resistance. Greater understanding of the various factors involved is therefore essential for the creation of a more stable situation.
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