Trade-offs between the shade-avoidance response and plant resistance to herbivores? Tests with mutant Cucumis sativus

Functional Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1025-1031

  McGuire, R ^a   Agrawal, A A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Acalymma vittatum; Cucumber; Cucurbitacins; Herbivory; Long hypocotyl mutant; Phenotypic plasticity

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CARBON; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FIELD METHOD; FRUIT; HERBIVORE; HERBIVORY; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PLANT; SHADE TOLERANCE; TESTING METHOD; TRADE-OFF;

ACALYMMA VITTATUM; COLEOPTERA; CUCUMIS SATIVUS;

EID: 33646483387     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2005.01047.x     Document Type: Article

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