Costs of plant defense priming: exposure to volatile cues from a specialist herbivore increases short-term growth but reduces rhizome production in tall goldenrod (Solidago altissima)
Abstract Background By sensing environmental cues indicative of pathogens or herbivores, plants can “prime” appropriate defenses and deploy faster, stronger responses to subsequent attack. Such priming presumably entails costs—else the primed state should be constitutively expressed—yet those costs...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2019-05-01
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Series: | BMC Plant Biology |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12870-019-1820-0 |