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Title:		Induced responses to herbivory and increased plant performance
Author(s):		Agrawal AA;
Address:		"Department of Entomology, and Center for Population Biology, One Shields Avenue, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA 95616-8584, USA. E-mail: aaagrawal@ucdavis.edu"
Journal Title:		Science
Year:		1998
Volume:		279
Issue:		5354
Page Number:		1201 - 1202
DOI:		10.1126/science.279.5354.1201
ISSN/ISBN:		1095-9203 (Electronic) 0036-8075 (Linking)
Abstract:		"Plant resistance to herbivores was induced in a field experiment to evaluate the consequences of induced responses for subsequent herbivory and plant fitness. Induction early in the season resulted in halving of herbivory by chewing herbivores and a reduction in the abundance of phloem-feeding aphids when compared with controls. A correlate of lifetime plant fitness, seed mass, was enhanced by over 60 percent for individuals that were induced"
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Notes:		"PubMed-not-MEDLINEAgrawal, AA eng 1998/03/04 Science. 1998 Feb 20; 279(5354):1201-2. doi: 10.1126/science.279.5354.1201"