Although little is known about the patterns of chemical defense allocation in reproductive tissues, optimal defense theory predicts a high constitutive allocation due to the tissues' high fitness value. To examine this prediction, we quantified the sho
The morphological and chemical characteristics of flowers which attract pollinators present a dilemm...
Whether or not a plant can recover its investment of resources in a chemical defense is central to t...
We quantified the accumulation of and tolerance to exogenously-fed nicotine by monitoring photosynth...
To defend themselves against herbivore attack, plants produce secondary metabolites, which are vario...
Nicotine, an inducible defense in a number of Nicotiana species, exemplifies adaptive phenotypic pla...
Nicotiana attenuata is a post-fire annual that utilizes jasmonate-inducible nicotine production as a...
Plant defense metabolites are well known to be regulated developmentally. The optimal defense (OD) t...
The induced defenses of plants are, by definition, examples of adaptive phenotypic plasticity; howev...
1. Plants adjust their phenotype in response to environmental signals, but little is known about the...
Plants employ highly variable chemical defenses against a broad community of herbivores, which vary ...
Folivory results in both leaf damage and the loss of photosynthetic capacity. Leaf damage activates ...
Optimal defense theory (ODT) predicts that the within-plant quantitative allocation of defenses is n...
Resource-based tradeoffs in the allocation of a limiting resource are commonly invoked to explain ne...
Optimal defense theory (ODT) predicts that the within-plant quantitative allocation of defenses is n...
Plants employ highly variable chemical defenses against a broad community of herbivores, which vary ...
The morphological and chemical characteristics of flowers which attract pollinators present a dilemm...
Whether or not a plant can recover its investment of resources in a chemical defense is central to t...
We quantified the accumulation of and tolerance to exogenously-fed nicotine by monitoring photosynth...
To defend themselves against herbivore attack, plants produce secondary metabolites, which are vario...
Nicotine, an inducible defense in a number of Nicotiana species, exemplifies adaptive phenotypic pla...
Nicotiana attenuata is a post-fire annual that utilizes jasmonate-inducible nicotine production as a...
Plant defense metabolites are well known to be regulated developmentally. The optimal defense (OD) t...
The induced defenses of plants are, by definition, examples of adaptive phenotypic plasticity; howev...
1. Plants adjust their phenotype in response to environmental signals, but little is known about the...
Plants employ highly variable chemical defenses against a broad community of herbivores, which vary ...
Folivory results in both leaf damage and the loss of photosynthetic capacity. Leaf damage activates ...
Optimal defense theory (ODT) predicts that the within-plant quantitative allocation of defenses is n...
Resource-based tradeoffs in the allocation of a limiting resource are commonly invoked to explain ne...
Optimal defense theory (ODT) predicts that the within-plant quantitative allocation of defenses is n...
Plants employ highly variable chemical defenses against a broad community of herbivores, which vary ...
The morphological and chemical characteristics of flowers which attract pollinators present a dilemm...
Whether or not a plant can recover its investment of resources in a chemical defense is central to t...
We quantified the accumulation of and tolerance to exogenously-fed nicotine by monitoring photosynth...