klendusityn.

1940 Phytopathology 30 362 The..continued misuse of such words as immunity, resistance, tolerance and klendusity (with resistance as a catch-all) tends definitely to confuse or mislead readers.

1940 Phytopathology 30 364 Klendusity: Ability of a susceptible variety to escape infection because of possession of some quality preventing or hindering successful inoculation under conditions conducive to infection in other varieties.

1943 Phytopathology 33 19 A few seedlings in subsequent generations that were derived indirectly from the almost sterile hybrid were about as capable of escaping infection as L[ycopersicon] chilense itself, thus showing heritability of klendusity.

1950 Trans. Brit. Mycol. Soc. 33 156 On this side of the Atlantic ‘klendusity’ and ‘suscept’ were each thrown out without a hearing, because they are the very opposite of comfortable words.

1958 Virology VI. 303 The nature and inheritance of the tendency to escape infection (klendusity) was investigated.

1967 R. K. S. Wood Physiol. Plant Pathol. xii. 400 Before these different forms of resistance are dealt with in detail, it is as well to refer to what some pathologists regard as a form of resistance, and which is usually referred to as ‘disease escape’. Less frequently the term ‘klendusity’ is used for the same thing.

1973 Guide Use Terms Plant Path. (Federation Brit. Plant Pathologists) 22 Klendusity: the failure of a susceptible host to become infected, in the presence of the pathogen, because of qualities preventing or hindering the operation of a vector or other inoculating agent... Klendusity may be considered a form of disease escape.

1943 Phytopathology 33 692 This klendusic seedling did not fruit for some time.