Costs of jasmonate-induced responses in plants competing for limited resources

Ecology Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 30-33

  Van Dam, Nicole M ^a   Baldwin, Ian T ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Costs, induced responses; Intraspecific plant competition; Methyl jasmonate; Nicotiana attenuata; Nitrogen; Optimal defence theory; Resource availability; Resource competition

Indexed keywords

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EID: 0002438492     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.1998.00010.x     Document Type: Article

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