A major trade-off between growth and defense in Arabidopsis thaliana can vanish in field conditions.

When wild plants defend themselves from pathogens, this often comes with a trade-off: the same genes that protect a plant from disease can also reduce its growth and fecundity in the absence of pathogens. One protein implicated in a major growth-defense trade-off is ACCELERATED CELL DEATH 6 (ACD6),...

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Main Authors: Derek S Lundberg, Sonja Kersten, Ezgi Mehmetoğlu Boz, Pratchaya Pramoj Na Ayutthaya, Wangsheng Zhu, Karin Poersch, Wei Yuan, Sophia Swartz, David Müller, Ilja Bezrukov, HARVEST TEAM, Detlef Weigel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2025-07-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003237
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