Chapter 8. Raoul A. Robinson. 1980. The pathosystem concept. Pages 157-182.

Keywords: a pathosystem is a subsystem of an ecosystem defined by the phenomenon of parasitism, a wild pathosystem is a balanced autonomous system, a crop pathosystem differs in that it has an element of deterministic control imposed by man, cultivars differ from wild plants, cultivation differs from a wild or natural ecosystem, plant breeding, insect pest resistance, vertical resistance or gene-for-gene resistance, horizontal resistance, properties of horizontal or polygenic resistance, properties of horizontal resistance, independence and constant ranking, performance, domestication of resistance, complete control of parasites, natural levels, no good source of resistance, comprehensive horizontal resistance, the wild pathosystem, the discontinuous pathosystem, proportion of matching allo-infection, the continuous pathosystem, the crop pathosystem, traditional plant breeding, targets, multidisciplinary

approach between entomology and plant pathology, physiology, agronomy, interplot interference, formation of new cultivars, measurement of horizontal resistance, Phytophthora infestans