Article
Is the cost of herbicide resistance expressed in the breakdown of the relationships between characters? A case study using synthetic-auxin-resistant Arabidopsis thaliana mutants.
Genetical research - 1 Apr 2005
Roux Fabrice, Reboud Xavier
Abstract excerpt
A mutation endowing herbicide resistance is often found to induce a parallel morphological or fitness penalty. To test whether such 'cost' of resistance to herbicides is expressed through lower resource acquisition, changes in resource allocation, or both, is of ecological significance. Here, we analysed 12 morphological traits in 900 plants covering three herbicide resistance mutations at genes AUX1 , AXR1 and...
Topics
- Arabidopsis
- Crosses, Genetic
- Data Interpretation, Statistical
- Drug Resistance
- Genes, Plant
- Herbicides
- Indoleacetic Acids
- Mutation
- Quantitative Trait Loci