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Disease Resistance

"Disease Resistance" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The capacity of an organism to defend itself against pathological processes or the agents of those processes. This most often involves innate immunity whereby the organism responds to pathogens in a generic way. The term disease resistance is used most frequently when referring to plants.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Disease Resistance" by people in this website by year, and whether "Disease Resistance" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Disease Resistance" by people in Profiles.
  1. Panose prevents acute-on-chronic liver failure by reducing bacterial infection in mice. J Clin Invest. 2025 Jul 15; 135(14).
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  2. Resistance and resilience to Alzheimer's disease in Down syndrome. Alzheimers Dement. 2025 04; 21(4):e70151.
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  3. Wheat genetic resources have avoided disease pandemics, improved food security, and reduced environmental footprints: A review of historical impacts and future opportunities. Glob Chang Biol. 2024 Aug; 30(8):e17440.
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  4. Distribution of Three Verticillium dahliae Races in Coastal California and Evaluation of Resistance in Lettuce. Plant Dis. 2024 Jul; 108(7):2170-2180.
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  5. Genetic Mapping, Identification, and Characterization of a Candidate Susceptibility Gene for Powdery Mildew in Cannabis sativa. Mol Plant Microbe Interact. 2024 Jan; 37(1):51-61.
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  6. Improving cassava bacterial blight resistance by editing the epigenome. Nat Commun. 2023 01 05; 14(1):85.
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  7. Mutations in DNA polymerase δ subunit 1 co-segregate with CMD2-type resistance to Cassava Mosaic Geminiviruses. Nat Commun. 2022 07 07; 13(1):3933.
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  8. Endogenous Retroviruses Augment Amphibian (Xenopus laevis) Tadpole Antiviral Protection. J Virol. 2022 06 08; 96(11):e0063422.
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  9. Biosynthesis and antifungal activity of fungus-induced O-methylated flavonoids in maize. Plant Physiol. 2022 01 20; 188(1):167-190.
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  10. Quantitative Trait Loci Mapping of Resistance to Powdery Mildew Race 1 in a Recombinant Inbred Line Population of Melon. Plant Dis. 2021 Dec; 105(12):3809-3815.
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