Title: | Indirect routes to reproductive success |
Address: | "is at Rothamsted Research , Harpenden , United Kingdom john.pickett@rothamsted.ac.uk" |
ISSN/ISBN: | 2050-084X (Electronic) 2050-084X (Linking) |
Abstract: | "By comparing wild-type and transgenic tobacco plants in a natural ecosystem, researchers have confirmed that the indirect defence mechanisms employed by plants to fend off herbivorous insects can increase Darwinian fitness" |
Keywords: | Animals Flowers/growth & development Genetic Fitness/physiology Hemiptera/*drug effects/pathogenicity/physiology Herbivory/*drug effects/physiology Larva/parasitology Manduca/parasitology Plant Leaves/*immunology/metabolism Tobacco/*immunology/metabolism; |
Notes: | "MedlinePickett, John eng England 2012/10/16 Elife. 2012 Oct 15; 1:e00240. doi: 10.7554/eLife.00240" |