Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
Volume 22, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms22020693
Keywords
growth-defense trade-offs; phytohormones; cell receptors
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- FONDECYT (Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Cientifico y Tecnologico) [1191330]
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In order to survive in hostile environments, plants must strike a delicate balance between resource management, response to stimuli, and environmental influences in their development and defense processes. These factors can significantly impact plant growth and lead to differences between plants of the same species living in different environments. Understanding plant growth-defense trade-offs is crucial for sustainable agriculture development.
In order to survive in a hostile habitat, plants have to manage the available resources to reach a delicate balance between development and defense processes, setting up what plant scientists call a trade-off. Most of these processes are basically responses to stimuli sensed by plant cell receptors and are influenced by the environmental features, which can incredibly modify such responses and even cause changes upon both molecular and phenotypic level. Therefore, significant differences can be detected between plants of the same species living in different environments. The comprehension of plant growth-defense trade-offs from the molecular basis to the phenotypic expression is one of the fundamentals for developing sustainable agriculture, so with this review we intend to contribute to the increasing of knowledge on this topic, which have a great importance for future development of agricultural crop production.
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