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      Co-evolution and plant resistance to natural enemies.

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      Animals, Biological Evolution, Insects, Models, Biological, Plant Diseases, Plant Physiological Phenomena, Plants, immunology, microbiology, parasitology

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          Co-evolution between plants and their natural enemies is generally believed to have generated much of the Earth's biological diversity. A process analogous to co-evolution occurs in agricultural systems, in which natural enemies adapt to crop resistance introduced by breeding or genetic engineering. Because of this similarity, the investigation of resistance mechanisms in crops is helping to elucidate the workings of co-evolution in nature, while evolutionary principles, including those derived from investigation of co-evolution in nature, are being applied in the management of resistance in genetically engineered crops.

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          BUTTERFLIES AND PLANTS: A STUDY IN COEVOLUTION

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            The ecology and evolution of plant tolerance to herbivory.

            The tolerance of plants to herbivory reflects the degree to which a plant can regrow and reproduce after damage from herbivores. Autoecological factors, as well as the influence of competitors and mutualists, affect the level of plant tolerance. Recent work indicates that there is a heritable basis for tolerance and that it can evolve in natural plant populations. Although tolerance is probably not a strict alternative to plant resistance, there could be inter- and intraspecific tradeoffs between these defensive strategies.
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              The Coevolutionary Process

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                11459070
                10.1038/35081193

                Chemistry
                Animals,Biological Evolution,Insects,Models, Biological,Plant Diseases,Plant Physiological Phenomena,Plants,immunology,microbiology,parasitology

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