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Fitness costs of induced resistance: emerging experimental support for a slippery concept.
Trends in plant science - 1 Feb 2002
Heil Martin, Baldwin Ian T
Abstract excerpt
Fitness costs can explain the evolution and maintenance of induced resistance in plants. However, the methods currently used to gather evidence for such costs do not allow decreases in fitness to be cleanly attributed to individual traits responsible for induced resistance, because the studies are plagued by multiple confounding responses. Reproductive performance provides an overview of physiological performance...
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