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1: Genome Biol. 2003;4(9):227. Epub 2003 Aug 14.Click here to read Click here to read Links

The fitness costs to plants of resistance to pathogens.

Burdon JJ, Thrall PH.

Division of Plant Industry, CSIRO, PO Box 1600, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia. jeremy.burdon@csiro.au

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.

PMID: 12952527 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

PMCID: PMC193648