Citation:

RC Lamb, HS Aldwinckle. 1980. Breeding for disease and insect resistance in tree crops. Pages 546-560. Biology and Breeding for Resistance to Arthropods and Pathogens in Agricultural Plants. MK Harris (editor). The Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, College Station, Texas and University of California, Agency for International Development, Pest Management Project, Berkeley CA USA, 605 pages.

Keywords: Plant breeding, genetic basis of resistance, identifying sources of resistance, apple scab, Venturia inaequalis, Malus floribunda, apple rust gymnosporangium juniper-virginianae, powdery mildew Podosphaera leucotricha, fire blight erwinia amylovora, pathogen-plant interaction, durability of resistance, method of plant breeding,