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Keywords: list of major tropical crops that are clonal, self-pollinating, cross pollinated, hybrid, types of epidemic diseases, epidemics categorized by temporal, spatial, and genetic separation, type I long term coevolution, type II genetically new encounters diseases, type III overcoming man-created genetic separation, four tropical crop breeding programs and suggestions for breeding-selection strategy in relation to the origin of crop-pathogen relationship, examples: pineapple whose origin was South America, homogeneity-diversity, breeding, assessment, banana, cassava, sugarcane