The fitness costs to plants of resistance to pathogens.

Genome biology ·Vol. 4 ·No. 9 ·2003-00-00 ·Pages 227

Burdon JJ, Thrall PH

Abstract

It has long been predicted that genes giving resistance to pathogens impose a cost on the fitness of plants. A new study has shown this to be true for one resistance gene in Arabidopsis. This raises intriguing theoretical and practical questions about how generally the results apply and how such costs are controlled in plants carrying resistance genes to several different pathogens.

MeSH Terms

Basidiomycota/pathogenicity Breeding Genotype Immunity, Innate/genetics Plant Diseases/genetics,microbiology Plants/genetics,microbiology Plants, Genetically Modified Virulence

Authors & Affiliations

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Burdon Jeremy J

Division of Plant Industry, CSIRO, PO Box 1600, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia. [email protected]

Thrall Peter H

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Article Info

Journal

Genome biology

Abbr.

Genome Biol

ISSN

1474-760X

DOI

10.1186/gb-2003-4-9-227

[email protected]

Published

2003-00-00

Epub

2003-00-14

Pages

227

Language

English

Region

England

NLM ID

100960660

PMCID

PMC193648

Subset

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PubMed source DOI: 10.1186/gb-2003-4-9-227 PMC Full Text View journal details

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