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Phytochemical Diversity

Adaptation or Random Variation?

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Phytochemical Diversity and Redundancy in Ecological Interactions

Part of the book series: Recent Advances in Phytochemistry ((RAPT,volume 30))

Abstract

The spectacular diversification of plant secondary metabolism has prompted a century of speculation about its adaptive significance.1–7 For much of the past hundred years it has been thought that natural selection effected by consumers is the driving force maintaining that diversity. Jones and Firn8, however, recently have suggested that “the evolution of plant defence may...have proceeded independent of consumer adaptation.” In other words, natural products may be maintained by plants not due to any selective advantage with respect to herbivory that accrues to genotypes that manufacture them but rather because “plants with a high absolute diversity of secondary metabolites have a greater probability of producing one or more active compounds at any time than plants with a low diversity.”

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