Abiotic and Herbivory Combined Stress in Tomato: Additive, Synergic and Antagonistic Effects and Within-Plant Phenotypic Plasticity.
Rosa VescioRoberta CaridiFrancesca LaudaniVincenzo PalmeriLucia ZappalàMaurizio BadianiAgostino SorgonàPublished in: Life (Basel, Switzerland) (2022)
These results suggested that the combined stress in tomato determined a "new stress state" and a higher within-plant phenotypic plasticity which could permit an efficient use of the growth and defense resources in the heterogeneous and multiple stressful environmental conditions.