“…Genotypes with different degrees of resistance were found and several defence mechanisms of plants against the pathogen have been described. Morphological changes such as the vacuolization of epidermal cells (Temmen et al, 1980), physical barriers such as leaf cuticle thickness (Ferrero et al, 2001) and the formation of papillae in plant cells (Mence and Hildebrandt, 1966) were found to influence fungal penetration. Hypersensitive response (HR) (Conti et al, 1985), simple monogenic control (De Vries and Dubois, 2001), a single dominant gene (Linde and Debener, 2003) and horizontal resistance (Schlosser, 1990;De Vries and Dubois, 2001) confer powdery mildew resistance.…”