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Testing adaptive plasticity to UV: costs and benefits of stem elongation and light-induced phenolics.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Dec 2004
Weinig Cynthia, Gravuer Kelly A, Kane Nolan C, Schmitt Johanna
Abstract excerpt
On exposure to ultraviolet radiation (UV), many plant species both reduce stem elongation and increase production of phenolic compounds that absorb in the UV region of the spectrum. To demonstrate that such developmental plasticity to UV is adaptive, it is necessary to show that the induced phenotype is both beneficial in inductive environments and maladaptive in non-inductive environments. We measured selection...
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