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Suggest four important steps to produce a disease resistant plant through conventional plant breeding technology.

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(i) Screening of germplasm for disease resistance sources.
(ii) Hybridisation of source plant and target plant.
(iii) Selection of progeny and evaluation of the hybrids.
(iv) Testing and release of new varieties.
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