TY - JOUR A2 - Chavas, Jean Paul AU - Lesser, William AU - Kolady, Deepthi Elizabeth PY - 2011 DA - 2011/06/30 TI - Disease Resistance of Wheat Varieties: Can Private Varieties Withstand the Pressure? SP - 575192 VL - 2011 AB - US wheat varieties are examined for differential disease resistance between public and private varieties, an issue for critics of plant intellectual property. Analysis using disease resistance rankings of wheat varieties from Kansas and Texas indicate that private varieties are as or more resistant. This finding was further confirmed with two years of Texas data. Thus, the results from the study reject the criticism of private breeding activities that they are more susceptible to disease compared to public varieties. However, private varieties resistance is incorporated from public offerings so that productive private wheat breeding is partly derivative. SN - 2090-2123 UR - https://doi.org/10.1155/2011/575192 DO - 10.1155/2011/575192 JF - Economics Research International PB - Hindawi Publishing Corporation KW - ER -