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VOL. 3, No. 6, of the Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences is devoted entirely to the papers submitted for the symposium at Coimbatore in October 1935 on “Disease Resistance in Plants”. Interest in the contributions lies in methods of stimulating disease resistance. These are adopted as a result of investigations along the lines of inheritance of resistance, structural modification associated with resistance and physiological conditions associated with the plants' response to the disease. Thus in the case of sugar-cane, frequently attacked by mosaic, N. L. Dutt, Syed Abbas Hussainy and M. K. Krishnaswami; C. S. Krishnaswami, and others, have found it possible to breed resistant plants and that those with Saccharum spontaneum parentage are more resistant than others.
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Disease Resistance in Plants. Nature 139, 598 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139598a0
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