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Constitutive camalexin production and environmental stress response variation in Arabidopsis populations from the Iberian Peninsula.
Plant science : an international journal of experimental plant biology - 1 Aug 2014
Zhang Nana, Lariviere Andy, Tonsor Stephen J, Traw M Brian
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Optimal defense theory predicts that induction of defensive secondary metabolites in plants will be inversely correlated with constitutive expression of those compounds. Here, we asked whether camalexin, an important defense against fungal and bacterial pathogens, support this prediction in structured natural populations of Arabidopsis thaliana from the Iberian Peninsula. In common garden experiments, we found...
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