Using knockout mutants to reveal the growth costs of defensive traits.
We used a selection of Arabidopsis thaliana mutants with knockouts in defence genes to demonstrate growth costs of trichome development and glucosinolate production. Four of the seven defence mutants had significantly higher size-standardized growth rates (SGRs) than the wild-type in early life, alt...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2011
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