Disease resistance can help sustain yield potential in cultivated crops. This book looks at disease resistance in wheat, concentrating on all of the economically important diseases - their economic impact and geographical spread, breeding for resistance, pathogen variability, resistance mechanisms and recent advances made on resistance genes.

Contributions by: Ravi P Singh, Colin R Wellings, Brent McCallum, Carl Griffey, Hermann Buerstmayr, Denis Gaudet, Harbans Bariana, Ron Knox, Pawan Singh, Francis D. Ogbonnaya, Antje Habekuß