Costs of Defense and a Test of the Carbon-Nutrient Balance and Growth-Differentiation Balance Hypotheses for Two Co-Occurring Classes of Plant Defense

Tara Joy Massad; Lee A. Dyer; Gerardo Vega C.

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0047554

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Costs of Defense and a Test of the Carbon-Nutrient Balance and Growth-Differentiation Balance Hypotheses for Two Co-Occurring Classes of Plant Defense

Tara Joy Massad ,

* E-mail: tmassad77@gmail.com

Current address: Program on the Global Environment, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
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Lee A. Dyer,

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, United States of America
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Gerardo Vega C.

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, United States of America
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Costs of Defense and a Test of the Carbon-Nutrient Balance and Growth-Differentiation Balance Hypotheses for Two Co-Occurring Classes of Plant Defense

Tara Joy Massad,
Lee A. Dyer,
Gerardo Vega C.

Published: October 24, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0047554

About the Authors

Tara Joy Massad

* E-mail: tmassad77@gmail.com

Current address: Program on the Global Environment, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Lee A. Dyer

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, United States of America

Gerardo Vega C.

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TJM LAD. Performed the experiments: TJM GVC. Analyzed the data: TJM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LAD TJM. Wrote the paper: TJM LAD.

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