Indirect routes to reproductive success.
By comparing wild-type and transgenic tobacco plants in a natural ecosystem, researchers have confirmed that the indirect defence mechanisms employed by plants to fend off herbivorous insects can increase Darwinian fitness.
is at  Rothamsted Research ,  Harpenden ,  United Kingdom john.pickett@rothamsted.ac.uk.
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