Université de Fribourg

Functional significance of triazine-herbicide resistance in defence of Senecio vulgaris against a rust fungus

Salzmann, Daniel ; Handley, Richard J. ; Müller-Schärer, Heinz

In: Basic and Applied Ecology, 2008, vol. 9, no. 5, p. 577-587

We investigated the functional significance of plant performance (dry mass, photosynthesis) in plant defence (resistance and tolerance) against pathogen infection, and potential negative cross-resistance between herbicide resistance and plant defence against disease. We compared isonuclear triazine-herbicide-resistant (TR) and -susceptible (TS) biotypes of Senecio vulgaris, in the presence and...