Costs of Defense and a Test of the Carbon-Nutrient Balance and Growth-Differentiation Balance Hypotheses for Two Co-Occurring Classes of Plant Defense

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Massad, Tara Joy ^a,c   Dyer, Lee A ^b   Vega C , Gerardo ^b  

^a Tulane University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERTILIZER; FLAVAN DERIVATIVE; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; SAPONIN DERIVATIVE; TRITERPENOID;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CARBON BALANCE; CARBON NUTRIENT BALANCE HYPOTHESIS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; FABACEAE; GAS EXCHANGE; GROWTH DIFFERENTIATION BALANCE HYPOTHESIS; HERBIVORY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYPOTHESIS; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT SUPPLY; PENTACLETHRA MACROLOBA; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT DEFENSE; PLANT GROWTH; SEEDLING;

BIOMASS; CARBON; FLAVONOIDS; PHENOLS; PLANTS;

FABACEAE; PENTACLETHRA MACROLOBA;

EID: 84868144340     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047554     Document Type: Article

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