title: Costs of resistance.
abstract: Studies of the reduction of fitness in plants expressing resistance characteristics have always been popular. New techniques for manipulating defense expression have recently resulted in a greater understanding of the mechanisms through which different types of resistance strategies produce costs, especially those costs associated with inducible defenses.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore 19081, USA. purrington@swarthmore.edu
authors.forename: C B
authors.initials: CB
authors.lastname: Purrington
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004463:Ecology; D004777:Environment; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D006790:Host-Parasite Interactions / Q000235:genetics*; D010641:Phenotype; D010935:Plant Diseases / Q000235:genetics* / Q000469:parasitology*; D010937:Plant Growth Regulators / Q000502:physiology; D010944:Plants / Q000235:genetics* / Q000469:parasitology*; D012641:Selection, Genetic
chemical_list: D010937:Plant Growth Regulators