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Synergies and trade-offs between insect and pathogen resistance in maize leaves and roots.
Plant, cell & environment - 1 Jul 2011
Erb Matthias, Balmer Dirk, De Lange Elvira S, Von Merey Georg, Planchamp Chantal, Robert Christelle A M, Röder Gregory, Sobhy Islam, Zwahlen Claudia, Mauch-Mani Brigitte, Turlings Ted C J
Abstract excerpt
Determining links between plant defence strategies is important to understand plant evolution and to optimize crop breeding strategies. Although several examples of synergies and trade-offs between defence traits are known for plants that are under attack by multiple organisms, few studies have attempted to measure correlations of defensive strategies using specific single attackers. Such links are hard to detect...
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