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Fertility, root reserves and the cost of inducible defenses in the perennial plant Solanum carolinense.
Journal of chemical ecology - 1 Oct 2005
Walls Ramona, Appel Heidi, Cipollini Martin, Schultz Jack
Abstract excerpt
We examined the relationship between internal resources (root reserves), external resources (soil fertility), and allocation to defense vs. growth in the clonal, perennial herb Solanum carolinense. In a short-term (9 d) greenhouse experiment, plants were treated once with jasmonic acid (JA) to determine if polyphenols and glycoalkaloids were inducible by simulated herbivory. In a longer-term (4 wk) greenhouse...
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