resistant cultivars
Disease-tolerant plant strains
Resistant cultivars are plant varieties bred or selected to withstand specific threats—diseases, pests, drought, or other environmental stresses.
The term appears in agriculture and horticulture: Farmers switched to resistant cultivars after blight devastated the region.
Unlike chemical treatments, resistant cultivars provide built-in protection, though pests and pathogens may eventually overcome the resistance.
- late blightPlant disease rotting tubers
- powdery mildewFungal leaf disease
- hybridThing of mixed parentage
- breedingReproductive cultivation of organisms
- graftedAttached living tissue
heirloom · pest-resistant · genetic resistance · hardy · drought-tolerant · rootstock · seed · seed stock · orchard · vineyard · yield · crop rotation · fungal · wilt · rot · immunity · genetics · plant breeding
- crop protectiondisease resistant
- Plant Defensedisease resistance, pest resistance, immune response, innate immunity, bacterial resistance
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