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TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
Volume 36, Issue 5, Pages 444-456Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2020.12.009
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- European Research Council (ERC) under the EU Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program [677139]
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health [R35GM119816]
- New Phytologist Trust
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In order to achieve ecological and reproductive success, plants need to mitigate various stressors by incorporating predictable patterns of stress in their life histories. This can help optimize plant responses to dynamic environments where stressors vary predictably.
To achieve ecological and reproductive success, plants need to mitigate a multitude of stressors. The stressors encountered by plants are highly dynamic but typically vary predictably due to seasonality or correlations among stressors. As plants face physiological and ecological constraints in responses to stress, it can be beneficial for plants to evolve the ability to incorporate predictable patterns of stress in their life histories. Here, we discuss how plants predict adverse conditions, which plant strategies integrate predictability of biotic stress, and how such strategies can evolve. We propose that plants commonly optimise responses to correlated sequences or combinations of herbivores and pathogens, and that the predictability of these patterns is a key factor governing plant strategies in dynamic environments.
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