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Costs
Induced responses
Intraspecific plant competition
Methyl jasmonate
Nicotiana attenuata
Nitrogen
Optimal defence theory
Resource availability
Resource competition.
Nicotiana-attenuata
Germination
Inhibitors
Resistance
Allocation
Defense
Growth
Smoke
Cues.
Environment/Ecology in Current Contents(R)/Agricultural, Biology & Environmental Sciences.
Abstract:
We present a design to quantify fitness consequences of jasmonate-induced responses in plants that are competing for limited resources with a conspecific. Under both high and low nitrogen supply rates, uninduced (control) Nicotiana attenuata plants grow