Publication Date:
1998-03-04
Description:
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.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Agrawal -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Feb 20;279(5354):1201-2.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉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.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9469809" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
