ABSTRACT
Plant diseases constitute a major threat to productivity, and the Green Revolution breeders were early advocates of incorporating general resistance against diseases (Borlaug, 1966; Caldwell, 1968), as a more durable strategy than race-specific resistance. Race non-specific and durable resistance has, to some degree, been deployed for the biotrophic diseases stripe, leaf and stem rusts and powdery mildew (Krattinger et al., 2009; Lillemo et al., 2008; Moore et al., 2015; Singh et al., 2011).
