The Joint Evolution of Herbivory Defense and Mating System in Plants: A Simulation Approach.

ABSTRACT: Agricultural losses brought about by insect herbivores can be reduced by understanding the strategies that plants use against insect herbivores. The two main strategies that plants use against herbivory are resistance and tolerance. They are, however, predicted to be mutually exclusive, yet numerous populations have them both (hence a mixed defense strategy). This has been explained, among other alternatives, by the non-linear behavior of the costs and benefits of resistance and tolerance and their interaction with plants' mating system. Here, we studied how non-linearity and mating system affect the evolutionary stability of mixed defense strategies by means of agent-based model simulations. The simulations work on a novel model that was built upon previous ones. It incorporates resistanc

SUBMITTER: Sandoval-Castellanos E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9919119 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature