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Nicotine
Allometry
Nicotiana attenuata
Fire
Nitrogen.
Hornworm manduca-sexta
Alkaloid production
Resistant insect
Limited growth
Nitrate
Tobacco
Germination
Sylvestris
Metabolism
Ammonium.
Environment/ecology.
Abstract:
Nicotiana attenuata is a post-fire annual that utilizes jasmonate-inducible nicotine production as an inducible chemical defense which, in turn, can utilize 6% of a plant's nitrogen budget and be costly to seed production. We characterize the nitrogen p