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Plant ecology

the idea that plants allocate costly chemical defenses to the tissues most valuable to fitness and most likely to be attacked.

In plant ecology, optimal defense theory refers to the idea that plants allocate costly chemical defenses to the tissues most valuable to fitness and most likely to be attacked. This meaning comes from McKey (1974) in The American Naturalist.[1]

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McKey, D. (1974). Adaptive Patterns in Alkaloid Physiology. The American Naturalist, 108(961), 305-320. https://doi.org/10.1086/282909

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