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Preferred term

Disease Resistance  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Entry terms

  • Resistance, Disease

Scope note

  • The capacity of an organism to defend itself against pathological processes or the agents of those processes. This most often involves innate immunity whereby the organism responds to pathogens in a generic way. The term disease resistance is used most frequently when referring to plants.

History note

  • 2012; use IMMUNITY, INNATE 1978-2011

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D060467

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