Ecological genetics of an induced plant defense against herbivores: Additive genetic variance and costs of phenotypic plasticity

Evolution

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 2206-2213

  Agrawal, Anurag A ^a   Conner, Jeffrey K ^b   Johnson, Marc T J ^a   Wallsgrove, Roger ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Inst Arable Crops Res Rothamsted   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive phenotypic plasticity; Additive genetic variation; Cost of plasticity; Glucosinolates; Pieris rapae; Plant herbivore interactions; Raphanus raphanistrum

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; GENETIC VARIATION; INDUCED RESPONSE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PLANT DEFENSE; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION;

ANIMALIA; EMBRYOPHYTA; LEPIDOPTERA; PIERIDAE; PIERIS RAPAE; RAPHANUS; RAPHANUS RAPHANISTRUM; RAPHANUS SATIVUS;

EID: 0036861643     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2002.tb00145.x     Document Type: Article

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