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.

Descriptor ID	D060467
MeSH Number(s)	C23.550.291.671 G12.450.564.250 G12.450.800.250 G15.630.250
Concept/Terms	Disease Resistance Disease Resistance Disease Resistances Resistances, Disease Resistance, Disease

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Disease Resistance".

Diseases [C]
Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms [C23]
Pathologic Processes [C23.550]
Disease Attributes [C23.550.291]
Disease Resistance [C23.550.291.671]
Biological Sciences [G]
Immune System Phenomena [G12]
Immunity [G12.450]
Immunity, Innate [G12.450.564]
Disease Resistance [G12.450.564.250]
Plant Immunity [G12.450.800]
Disease Resistance [G12.450.800.250]
Plant Physiological Phenomena [G15]
Plant Immunity [G15.630]
Disease Resistance [G15.630.250]

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Disease Resistance".

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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 14 publications over 9 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2021

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2011	0	1	1
2012	0	1	1
2014	1	0	1
2015	1	0	1
2016	1	0	1
2018	1	0	1
2019	3	0	3
2021	1	3	4
2025	1	0	1

Below are the most recent publications written about "Disease Resistance" by people in Profiles.

Kumar G, Dasgupta I. Revolutionizing viral resistance strategies in rice: Evolution from RNAi to precision genome editing. Virology. 2025 03; 604:110449.

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Hufford MB, Seetharam AS, Woodhouse MR, Chougule KM, Ou S, Liu J, Ricci WA, Guo T, Olson A, Qiu Y, Della Coletta R, Tittes S, Hudson AI, Marand AP, Wei S, Lu Z, Wang B, Tello-Ruiz MK, Piri RD, Wang N, Kim DW, Zeng Y, O'Connor CH, Li X, Gilbert AM, Baggs E, Krasileva KV, Portwood JL, Cannon EKS, Andorf CM, Manchanda N, Snodgrass SJ, Hufnagel DE, Jiang Q, Pedersen S, Syring ML, Kudrna DA, Llaca V, Fengler K, Schmitz RJ, Ross-Ibarra J, Yu J, Gent JI, Hirsch CN, Ware D, Dawe RK. De novo assembly, annotation, and comparative analysis of 26 diverse maize genomes. Science. 2021 08 06; 373(6555):655-662.

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Melo-Silva CR, Alves-Peixoto P, Heath N, Tang L, Montoya B, Knudson CJ, Stotesbury C, Ferez M, Wong E, Sigal LJ. Resistance to lethal ectromelia virus infection requires Type I interferon receptor in natural killer cells and monocytes but not in adaptive immune or parenchymal cells. PLoS Pathog. 2021 05; 17(5):e1009593.

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Halwe NJ, Gorka M, Hoffmann B, Rissmann M, Breithaupt A, Schwemmle M, Beer M, Kandeil A, Ali MA, Kayali G, Hoffmann D, Balkema-Buschmann A. Egyptian Fruit Bats (Rousettus aegyptiacus) Were Resistant to Experimental Inoculation with Avian-Origin Influenza A Virus of Subtype H9N2, But Are Susceptible to Experimental Infection with Bat-Borne H9N2 Virus. Viruses. 2021 04 14; 13(4).

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Kumar G, Dasgupta I. The titers of rice tungro bacilliform virus dictate the expression levels of genes related to cell wall dynamics in rice plants affected by tungro disease. Arch Virol. 2021 May; 166(5):1325-1336.

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Singh A, Li G, Brohammer AB, Jarquin D, Hirsch CN, Alfano JR, Lorenz AJ. Genome-Wide Association and Gene Co-expression Network Analyses Reveal Complex Genetics of Resistance to Goss's Wilt of Maize. G3 (Bethesda). 2019 10 07; 9(10):3139-3152.

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Singh A, Mohorianu I, Green D, Dalmay T, Dasgupta I, Mukherjee SK. Artificially induced phased siRNAs promote virus resistance in transgenic plants. Virology. 2019 11; 537:208-215.

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Della Coletta R, Hirsch CN, Rouse MN, Lorenz A, Garvin DF. Genomic Dissection of Nonhost Resistance to Wheat Stem Rust in Brachypodium distachyon. Mol Plant Microbe Interact. 2019 Apr; 32(4):392-400.

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Sharma S, Kumar G, Dasgupta I. Simultaneous resistance against the two viruses causing rice tungro disease using RNA interference. Virus Res. 2018 08 15; 255:157-164.

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Singh A, Saraf S, Dasgupta I, Mukherjee SK. Identification and validation of a virus-inducible ta-siRNA-generating TAS4 locus in tomato. J Biosci. 2016 Mar; 41(1):109-18.

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