Plant Breeding for Biotic Stress Resistance

1. Challenges for Plant Breeding to Develop Biotic-Resistant Cultivars
Aluízio Borém, Roberto Fritsche-Neto

2. Breeding for Fungus Resistance
Arione da Silva Pereira, Cesar Bauer Gomes, Caroline Marques Castro, Giovani Olegario da Silva

3. Breeding for Resistance to Bacterial Diseases
Carlos A. Lopes, Leonardo S. Boiteux

4. Breeding for Resistance to Viral Diseases
Leonardo S. Boiteux, Maria Esther Noronha Fonseca, Jairo Vidal Vieira, Rita Cássia Pereira-Carvalho

5. Breeding for Nematode Resistance
Éder Matsuo, Paulo Afonso Ferreira, Tuneo Sediyama, Silamar Ferraz, Aluízio Borém, Roberto Fritsche-Neto

6. Breeding for Resistance to Insect Pests
Alexandre Augusto Morais, José Baldin Pinheiro

7. Breeding for Resistance to Insect Pests of Stored Grain
Alexandre Augusto Morais, José Baldin Pinheiro

8. Breeding for Weed Management
Roberto Fritsche-Neto, Júlio César DoVale, Lino Roberto Ferreira, Francisco Affonso Ferreira, Antônio Alberto da Silva

Keywords: Life Sciences, Plant Breeding/Biotechnology, Agriculture, Plant Genetics & Genomics, Plant Physiology, Plant Pathology