title: Oxidative Stress: A Master Regulator of Plant Trade-Offs?
abstract: Trade-offs between growth, reproduction, and defence have been documented. Oxidative stress is one of the physiological mechanisms that underlie trade-offs at the cellular and organ levels. The diversity of plant life forms and the complexity of scaling up limit our knowledge of oxidative stress as a universal mediator of life-history trade-offs at the organism level. Joint efforts by plant physiologists and ecologists will undoubtedly provide novel insights into this topic in the near future.
authors.affiliation: Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona, Avinguda Diagonal 643, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Melanie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Morales
authors.affiliation: Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona, Avinguda Diagonal 643, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain. Electronic address: smunne@ub.edu.
authors.forename: Sergi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Munné-Bosch
mesh_terms: D018384:Oxidative Stress / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D010944:Plants / Q000378:metabolism*; D012098:Reproduction / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*