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While the diversity of the pathogen population creates problems, there are
ways to manage rust diseases in CWANA countries, such as through effective
deployment of resistance sources and use of durable resistance in an Integrated
Regional Cereal Rusts Management Programme. Hence, breeding for disease
resistance in CWANA could be achieved using broad-based resistance that
could be facilitated by: (1) adequate measures for gene deployment across the
region, (2) use of molecular markers to follow the flow and the build-up of
resistance in the breeding programmes’ germplasm, (3) use of markers to
monitor the genetic diversity in the rust populations across the region, and
(4) maintenance of an adequate level of host diversity in the breeding
programmes to stabilize resistance to the predominant cereal rusts.
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