Resistance to specific pathogen races while susceptible to others is a concept introduced by J.E. van der Plank in their work on plant diseases, epidemics, and control published in 1963 under Academic Press in New York and London. The resistance in question involves noticeable interactions that can be identified through a variance analysis of a sequence of pathotypes and corresponding pathodemes, as explained in Robinson’s study in 1969. This form of resistance can be compared to horizontal resistance.