Nature Communications (Aug 2016)

Rewiring of jasmonate and phytochrome B signalling uncouples plant growth-defense tradeoffs

  • Marcelo L. Campos,
  • Yuki Yoshida,
  • Ian T. Major,
  • Dalton de Oliveira Ferreira,
  • Sarathi M. Weraduwage,
  • John E. Froehlich,
  • Brendan F. Johnson,
  • David M. Kramer,
  • Georg Jander,
  • Thomas D. Sharkey,
  • Gregg A. Howe

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12570
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Plant immune responses are often associated with reduced growth. Here, the authors show that combining mutations in transcriptional repressors of the defense and light perception pathways can confer both robust growth and strong herbivore defense, demonstrating that growth-defense tradeoffs can be uncoupled.