The proportion of resistant hosts in mixtures should be biased towards the resistance with the lowest breaking cost.

Current agricultural practices facilitate emergence and spread of plant diseases through the wide use of monocultures. Host mixtures are a promising alternative for sustainable plant disease control. Their effectiveness can be partly explained by priming-induced cross-protection among plants. Primin...

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Main Authors: Pauline Clin, Frédéric Grognard, Didier Andrivon, Ludovic Mailleret, Frédéric M Hamelin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2023-05-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011146