Field conditions greatly modify a major growth-defense tradeoff in Arabidopsis thaliana
Derek S. Lundberg, Sonja Kersten, Ezgi Mehmetoğlu, Pratchaya Pramoj Na Ayutthaya, Wangsheng Zhu, Karin Poersch, Wei Yuan, Sophia E. Swartz, David Müller, Ilja Bezrukov, HARVEST TEAM, Detlef Weigel
The study shows that field conditions override the growth-defense tradeoff in Arabidopsis thaliana by modulating ACD6 activity, unlike greenhouse conditions.
PLoS Biology · Jul 14, 2025Peer-reviewedPlant Biology