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Disease Resistance

"Disease Resistance" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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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.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Disease Resistance" by people in this website by year, and whether "Disease Resistance" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 16 publications over 8 distinct years, with a maximum of 6 publications in 2015
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