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Growth-defense trade-offs shape population genetic composition in an iconic forest tree species.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 14 Sept 2021
Cope Olivia L, Keefover-Ring Ken, Kruger Eric L, Lindroth Richard L
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All organisms experience fundamental conflicts between divergent metabolic processes. In plants, a pivotal conflict occurs between allocation to growth, which accelerates resource acquisition, and to defense, which protects existing tissue against herbivory. Trade-offs between growth and defense traits are not universally observed, and a central prediction of plant evolutionary ecology is that context-dependence...
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