Biotic interactions. Ploy and counter-ploy in the biotic interactions of plants
Abstract
Throughout their lives, plants interact with a huge array of organisms, each with their own agenda. These interactions take many forms, including close encounters with mobile organisms, co-habitation with other plants and organisms in the rhizosphere, intimate associations with a diverse array of pathogens and sustained interactions with symbionts, all of which are potential selective forces for the plant. As a consequence, these interactions are best understood in the context of the evolutionary interplay that occurs between the genomes of the interacting partners. As each plant response evokes counter responses, the dynamics of the interaction are sometimes co-evolutionary and always complicated. Interactions with simple outcomes (e.g. the complete domination of one partner) are no longer seen as part of the picture.
- Publication:
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Current Opinion in Plant Biology
- Pub Date:
- 2004
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.pbi.2004.05.012
- Bibcode:
- 2004COPB....7..353H
- Keywords:
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- AM;
- arbuscular mycorrhizal;
- JA;
- jasmonic acid;
- ROS;
- reactive oxygen species;
- SA;
- salicylic acid