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THE origin of physiological races of fungi causing plant diseases has been attributed to sexual and para-sexual recombination, adaptation and mutation. Wliere pathogenicity depends on the action of several genes, recombination results in new physiological races. Where pathogenicity on a given host depends on a single gene, changes in host specificity can only arise by point changes within the gene as distinct from recombination.
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DAY, P. Mutation to Virulence in Cladosporium fulvum . Nature 179, 1141–1142 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/1791141b0
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