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Systemic acquired-resistance; programmed cell-death; plant gene-expression; salicylic-acid; disease resistance; jasmonic acid; nicotiana-sylvestris; hypersensitive response; proteinase-inhibitors; arabidopsis mutant
Abstract:
Fitness costs can explain the evolution and maintenance of induced resistance in plants. However, the methods currently used to gather evidence for such costs do not allow decreases in fitness to be cleanly attributed to individual traits responsible fo